A schoolboy educated at the college of Bois-d'Aulne in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine was heard in custody as part of the investigation into the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty.
This 15-year-old student is suspected of having been paid by the terrorist Abdullakh Anzorov to help him identify his future victim on Friday, according to information from Le Monde, which the Parisian is able to confirm.
As the anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard had indicated on Saturday, the killer had "been seen in front of the college during the afternoon [before the attack] and had asked students to designate his future victim".
According to the evening daily, the investigation of police officers from the anti-terrorism sub-directorate (SDAT) of the judicial police and the general directorate of internal security (DGSI) established that Anzorov had obtained several hundred euros in order to encourage college students to provide him with information.
This sum would then have circulated from hand to hand.
However, there is nothing to confirm that the student who received money from the terrorist to designate Samuel Paty was aware of the disastrous plans of his interlocutor.
His custody has been lifted.
Ten people still in custody
Ten people were still in custody this Monday at midday, including the parents, the grandfather and the little brother of the assailant, arrested in Évreux.
Also questioned is the father of the student who called for mobilization against the teacher.
He was arrested in Chanteloup-les-Vignes.
The man who had accompanied him to college to complain about the professor and had interviewed his daughter in a video, the Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui, active in France since the mid-2000s, as well as his companion, are also.
Anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard stressed that the student's father had a half-sister, who left in 2014 to join the Islamic State organization in Syria and is the subject of a search warrant.
The prosecutor made no connection between this father, his entourage and the assailant.
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Finally, three people who had been in contact with the aggressor, who spontaneously presented themselves to the Evreux police station on Friday evening, are also in police custody.
