(Radio France) The possible involvement of radical Islamist movements, particularly those active on social networks, in the beheading of a history professor in the Paris region on Friday by an 18-year-old Chechen Russian, is causing concern to the intelligence services and the French government.
The presence of the radical Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui among the eleven people held in custody as part of the investigation into the assassination of Samuel Paty reinforced these suspicions on Saturday.
“These ‘minority’ Islamist movements seek to convince Muslims that France is an Islamophobic country. They seek to instrumentalize them, to create a conglomerate,” Laurent Nuñez, the national coordinator of intelligence and the fight against terrorism, told the French news agency AFP. “And at the slightest incident, they start.”
