Moroccan Embassy Denies Ties to Radical Islamist in French Teacher’s Murder Case

"Sefrioui is not known to the embassy or the general consulates. No report has been made by the French authorities to the Moroccan embassy in France," said an authorized source within the Moroccan chancellery to Atlasinfo. "It was the French authorities who granted him nationality. The ideas he defends are contrary to the doctrine of Islam as advocated by the Kingdom of Morocco," the same source stressed.

To recall, Samuel Paty was a history teacher at the Bois d’Aulne college, who had asked Muslim students to leave his class to show caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Brahim Chnina, the father of a student, with the collaboration of Abdelhakim Sefrioui, had called on social networks on October 12 for a demonstration against the teacher.

Subsequently, the teacher was beheaded last Friday, near the college, by a Chechen Russian, killed the same day by the police. "They obviously issued a fatwa against the teacher," Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin had said on Europe 1. Brahim Chnina and the radical activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui are among the eleven people held in custody as part of the investigation, the same source said.