Many gray areas remain in the personal journey of Abdoullakh Anzorov, this 18-year-old young man of Chechen origin who murdered on Friday October 16 Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) .
Its radicalization, in particular, questions.
In Evreux (Eure) where part of the Anzorov family lives, including the parents of the perpetrator of the attack, the neighbors had detected nothing on this subject, even if the dark side of the young man worried some.
His relatives claim to have seen nothing coming either.
"I do not understand, he must have been trapped on the Internet and fall into religion", confides to us this Sunday a paternal uncle of the terrorist, shot dead by the police on Friday in Eragny-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise) little after the attack.
According to our information, Abdoullakh Anzorov, who had taken up boxing recently, was made redundant in the Toulouse wrestling club in 2018-2019.
A sports association precisely in the sights of the State and the intelligence services for its exacerbated communitarianism.
Prayers during the sessions, refusal of co-education, imposed halal: the proximity to the Islamist movement that reigned in this club had also been exposed by a report from France Televisions.
“It is always difficult to realize when things change, but since then we have worked to put the structure back in good working order because there were many problems, recognizes Alain Bertholom, the president of the French Wrestling Federation.
We have professionalized the association and we have implemented a feminization plan.
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"The climate around remains worrying"
Placed under the supervision of the regional committee, the Toulouse wrestling club has changed its name.
"But the practitioners who were there in 2016 or 2017 are still at the club, and if it is cleaned up when you go through the doors of the gymnasium, the climate around remains worrying", testifies a member of this club who prefers to remain anonymous.
Adboullakh Anzorov, he would have been excluded from the club shortly before the end of the season.
"It was not enough diligent or punctual, but difficult to know why", continues the same member of the club, who now has a little more than 160 licensees, against fifty five years ago.
Eight nationalities coexist, but half of the members are Chechens.
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It is their national sport there, they are in the majority in many wrestling associations in France, and if we do not explain to them that in France we do not talk about politics or religion in a club, they do as they have. 'habit to do in their country of origin, but without any malice, notes Didier Brisot, the head of the Occitanie wrestling league.
And nothing can allow to say that it is here that Abdullakh Anzorov became radicalized.
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"Often many leaders do not dare to say anything"
"That's the whole problem, sometimes we don't see anything, but above all, often many leaders feel powerless or dare not say anything, assures Patrick Karam, the vice-president (Free) in charge of sports in the region Ile-de-France, which is confronted with this type of drifts and author of a book on the question.
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Also inspector general at the Ministry of Sports, he adds: "The controls no longer allow us to notice the drifts, because they are made up, camouflaged, now, especially in clubs that know they are in the viewfinder.
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In Toulouse now, Islam Askhabov, ex-trainer, is in charge of the destiny of a structure "put back on the right track", according to Alain Bertholom.