Abdoullakh Anzorov was 6 years old when he left Russia with his parents to settle in France. He was 18 years old when he beheaded Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020, before being shot dead by police officers he had rushed towards, weapons drawn. What happened, during these twelve years spent on the school benches of the Republic, for this young Chechen refugee to end up murdering a history and geography teacher?
Neither he nor his family members, most of whom left France after the attack, were able to give any response before the special criminal court in Paris. But two witnesses, an investigator and an investigator, heard during the second week of the trial for the murder of Samuel Paty, analyzed the “short circuit” identity that was able to fuel his murderous explosion for years, like in a pressure cooker.
Like many Chechen refugees, Abdoullakh Anzorov is heir to two decades of war of independence against the Russian army, which transformed the Chechen Republic, where he was born, into a land of desolation and a jihadist experimentation ground. “This is a population that has experienced many conflicts, many traumas that will have an impact on current actions”historian Anne-Clémentine Larroque, who worked on this case as an assistant specialized in anti-terrorist justice, explained in court.
“A fear of acculturation”
According to information provided by the family, Abdoullakh Anzorov’s father was detained by Russian authorities in 2005 for harboring jihadist fighters, reports an investigator from the anti-terrorist subdirectorate (SDAT). And it was to flee persecution by the pro-Russian regime of Ramzan Kadyrov that the family settled in France in 2008, where they obtained refugee status three years later.
The father, mother and their children settled in Evreux (Eure) in 2012. The family, closed in on itself and practicing a rigorous Islam, stood out, even within the Chechen diaspora. One of the accused, Azim Epsirkhanov, the murderer’s best friend and the son of Chechen refugees, expressed to the court his astonishment when he went to the Anzorovs’ house: the younger children assiduously practiced religion, music was prohibited, and the mother was prohibited. . leave the apartment alone. “ Was very different from home »he clarified.
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