French teen admits she lied about teacher lesson that got him beheaded by Islamic terrorist
A French teen has admitted she lied about her teacher asking Muslim students to leave a classroom so he could show an irreverent picture of the Prophet Mohammed — a lie that led to the instructor’s beheading by an Islamic terrorist 10 days later.
In between her lie and the horrific murder was a social media campaign waged by the girl’s father, Brahim Chnina, 48, who flew into a rage at his daughter’s account, posting two videos. That, as The Guardian reported, caught the eye of Abdullakh Anzorov, 18, “a radicalized Chechen migrant living in Normandy and scouring the internet for a cause,” as The Guardian described him.
Ten days later, history teacher Samuel Paty was decapitated, leaving behind a devastated family, including a 5-year-old son.
The girl, known in proceedings only as Z, was covering up the fact that she had been suspended for repeatedly cutting class, a lie she admitted to on Sunday. She had been outed after several classmates said she had not even been in the classroom when the teacher gave students permission to close their eyes as he showed controversial caricatures from Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine whose staff had been massacred in their offices in 2015.
She had told her father that Paty told students to leave the classroom so he could show the rest of the students “a photograph of the Prophet naked,” The Guardian reported.
What really happened last Oct. 6 was that the history and geography teacher was giving a lesson on the subject of free speech versus blasphemy and used Charlie Hebdo cartoons as examples of the dilemma between the two, as BBC News recounted. He gave students permission to close their eyes before showing the controversial cartoons.
The girl has been charged with slander, and her father and another man, a known Islamist preacher, with “complicity in murder,” according to Agence France-Presse. The men are in jail awaiting trial.
Two teens, age 14 and 15, are being investigated for allegedly helping Anzorov identify and target Paty.
