The terrorist assassination of Samuel Paty, on October 16, caused a flood of comments on social networks.
If most Internet users were indignant at the beheading of the 43-year-old teacher, killed in front of his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), others had a completely different speech.
On some Instagram, Facebook or Twitter posts, the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, shown by the official during a course on free speech, were sometimes seen as a provocation.
Certain individuals thus legitimized the death of the professor of history, who would have, according to them, "
well sought
".
Read also: Assassination of Samuel Paty: did the intelligence fail?
While Marlène Schiappa provides for the creation of a republican counter-discourse unit on social networks, the hunt for words legitimizing the acts of terrorist Abdullakh Anzorov is in full swing.
This Tuesday, October 27, around thirty cases had been handled by the Paris prosecutor's office on this subject since the death of Samuel Paty,
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