Six of the sixteen people held in custody in the investigation led by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) into the assassination of college professor Samuel Paty were released Tuesday evening, October 20, AFP learned from a judicial source.
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The Pnat must now decide on a possible presentation to a judge of the ten people still in custody. The six people released are the assailant's parents, grandfather and younger brother, Abdullakh Anzarov; the partner of the militant Islamist Abdelhakim Sefrioui; as well as a man already convicted of acts of terrorism who was in contact with the author of the beheading of the teacher, Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.