A 22-year-old young man of Chechen origin living in Blois was indicted on Sunday for “apologizing for terrorist acts” through social networks and placed in detention, the public prosecutor announced on Sunday. Blois Frédéric Chevallier.
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After Samuel Paty's death, this young man, born in Russia, was identified after comments made on a Twitter account using a pseudonym.
He was already known to the justice services to have been "sentenced in 2017, when he was a minor, for acts of defending terrorist acts, following the
Charlie Hebdo
attacks
in January 2015," said Frédéric. Knight.
According to the prosecution, the investigations made it possible to bring to light "exchanges and writings which may characterize acts of apology".
The young man had notably "liked" on his Twitter account the photograph of Samuel Paty.
A search of his home also uncovered numerous weapons and knives.
During his custody, the person challenged "any radicalization".
"At the end of the numerous investigations carried out during the time of police custody, the young man was referred this Sunday morning, October 25, 2020 before the magistrate of the public prosecutor's office of Blois who opened a judicial investigation of the chief of apology for terrorist acts aggravated by the fact that these acts were committed using an online public communication service.
Indicted on this count by the investigating magistrate on duty, he was, on compliant requests from the prosecution, placed in pre-trial detention, ”added the prosecution.
Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography in a college in Conflans-Saint-Honorine (Yvelines), was beheaded on October 16 by an 18-year-old refugee of Chechen Russian origin, Abdoullakh Anzorov.
