The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation on Sunday after the publication on a neo-Nazi website of the photograph of the beheaded professor Friday near a college in Conflans-Saint-Honorine (Yvelines), he announced Monday to AFP .
A French neo-Nazi website, hosted abroad, disseminated the photograph of the decapitated corpse of the professor, Samuel Paty, posted on Twitter by the assailant, Abdoullakh Anzorov, to claim his crime.
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The investigation for
"dissemination of images of violence"
, entrusted to the police officers of the brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP), was opened after the report of the dissemination of the cliché by the French Association of victims of terrorism (AFVT), told AFP the Paris prosecutor's office.
The AFVT filed a complaint Monday morning for
"publication inciting terrorism or likely to seriously undermine human dignity,"
told AFP its director general and spokesperson, Guillaume Denoix de Saint-Marc.
"We file a complaint out of respect for the families, it's horrible to see this photo on the web,"
he added, adding that a message of hate accompanied the cliché on the neo-Nazi website.
“We worked to remove the photo of the severed head from all social networks, which we managed to do via Pharos (platform for reporting illegal content on the internet, editor's note), Twitter and Facebook, but there are still a few sites ”
which have not removed the cliché, he regretted.
The Paris prosecutor's office also opened on Saturday an investigation of flagrance for
"apologia for an act of terrorism committed through a means of communication",
after the publication on Twitter of a message welcoming the attack against the 'teacher.
Samuel Paty, the history-geography teacher who had shown his students caricatures of Muhammad at the beginning of October, was beheaded on Friday near the college where he taught, by an 18-year-old Chechen Russian Abdullakh Anzorov, who was then shot by the police.