This is an open investigation for "dissemination of images of violence".
The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Monday that it had opened, the day before, investigations after the dissemination on a neo-Nazi website of the photograph of Samuel Paty, when the teacher had just been beheaded on Friday near his college in Conflans-Sainte -Honorine (Yvelines).
This French neo-Nazi website, hosted abroad, disseminated the photograph of the decapitated corpse after the assailant, Abdullakh Anzorov, posted it on Twitter to claim his crime.
Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography who had shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students in early October, was beheaded near the college where he was teaching, by an 18-year-old Chechen Russian, Abdullakh Anzorov, who was then shot dead by the police men.
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The investigation into this dissemination of images, 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 ), said the Paris prosecutor's office.
"We file a complaint out of respect for the families"
AFVT lodged a complaint on 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 hate message 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.