Gérald Darmanin, who said this Thursday "understand" the complaint filed Wednesday against the administration by the family of Samuel Paty, assassinated in October 2020, believes however that "the State will not have to be ashamed" of its action in this case.
"It will be necessary, and this is normal, for the State to say everything it has been able to do and it will not have to be ashamed of what it has done", declared the Minister of the Interior on BFMTV .
Previously, the minister repeated "understand the will" of the family "to know the whole truth", while ensuring that the authorities have "nothing to hide".
Defending the intelligence services, he recalled that the assassin of Samuel Paty, Abdoullakh Anzorov, whose Twitter account had been reported in the summer of 2020 to the Pharos platform, "was not known by any intelligence service" and that he had "self-radicalized in a few days".
Gérald Darmanin also called for “not to take the wrong target”: “Those who killed Samuel Paty were the radical Islamists.
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The complaint filed in Paris targets the offenses of "non-impediment of crime and non-assistance to person in danger" and targets "several agents of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Education" who had to know directly or indirectly from the situation of Samuel Paty.
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The 47-year-old professor had been stabbed and then beheaded by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, killed shortly afterwards by the police.
The 18-year-old man, radicalized, criticized the teacher for having shown caricatures of Muhammad in class during a course on secularism in a college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines).
He had learned of the controversy targeting the professor a few days earlier via social networks where videos of Brahim Chnina, father of a schoolgirl who claimed to have attended the course, and the sulphurous Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui, had been broadcast.
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For the family, "the agents of the Ministry of the Interior failed to assist Samuel Paty", who "should have benefited from at least the weakest protection", one or two agents, in view of the "threat aiming at him, which "would have saved him".
In the anti-terrorism investigation into the assassination, at least fifteen people are indicted in this case, including six college students, the teenager's father and Abdelhakim Sefrioui.
The investigations could be closed by the end of 2022, according to a source familiar with the matter.
