Lhe lawyers for Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui requested at the end of September that an arrest warrant be issued against Faruq Shami, a Tajik contact in Syria for the assassin of Samuel Paty, whom they present as “the instigator, even the sponsor of the crime, Agence France-Presse learned on Friday from a source familiar with the matter.
On September 28, lawyers Elise Arfi, Ouadie Elhamamouchi and Sefen Guez Guez filed a request consulted by AFP and revealed by BFMTV asking that Faruq Shami be the subject of an international arrest warrant. For Abdelhakim Sefrioui’s advice, the investigation shows “a direct link between his exhortations [sur les réseaux sociaux, NDLR] and the murderous act of terrorist Abdoullakh Anzorov in October 2020.
Faruq Shami would be according to them “the first to whom Abdoullakh Anzorov addresses his claim for the assassination of Samuel Paty”. The assailant also claimed responsibility for the assassination on Twitter. The advice of the Islamist militant also notes that several weeks before the assassination of the professor, Faruq Shami had called in a video to target France within “one month”, following the publication of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad by the newspaper Charlie Hebdo. For them, it is “inexplicable […] that Faruq Shami is not worried” by French justice.
The lawyer for part of the family of Samuel Paty, Me Virginie Le Roy, she denounced “an attempt to clear customs by Mr. Sefr […] Read more