On Friday, a French schoolteacher named Samuel Paty was brutally decapitated by an 18-year-old assailiant outside his workplace, a brutal murder that has been confirmed as a terror attack, possibly inspired by a fatwa issued by a French cleric.
French authorities have determined all this, and more, as French President Emmanuel Macron launches an unprecedented crackdown on terror networks in the country with a focus on "political" organizations that officials fear function as fronts, or gateways, for terror recruits plotting acts of violence. Over the weekend, police arrested 11 people, including 4 relatives of the attacker, 18-year-old Abdoullakh Abouyezidovitch Anzorov, who is a migrant from Chechnya living in France.
Police appear to be nearing a determination of a motive in the attack: they suspect that a French extremist cleric named Abdelhakim Sefrioui issued a "fatwa" against Paty after visiting the school with the father of a pupil who was referenced above. Both of these men are among the 11 who have been arrested so far in the case.
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