The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, an year-old Chechen Muslim refugee, killed and beheaded Paty with a cleaver , and was shot and killed by police minutes later. A social media campaign against Paty was linked to his subsequent murder.
She later admitted that she lied about the material shown and had been absent from the class. French president Emmanuel Macron said that the incident was "a typical Islamist terrorist attack", and that "our compatriot was killed for teaching children freedom of speech".
Many Muslims expressed offence at the cartoons, which were also the subject of the previous Charlie Hebdo shooting. The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, was an year-old Russian immigrant of Chechen ethnic descent, born in Moscow , Russia. Anzorov had moved to France with refugee status 12 years earlier as a six-year-old boy. The Anzorov family moved from the village of Shalazhi in Chechnya. Abdoullakh's father Abuezid moved first to Moscow, and then to Paris.
Before the attack, he was in communication with two unidentified jihadists in Syria, including one Russian speaker. The jihadists were located through their IP addresses at Idlib , Syria, the last rebel stronghold of the country which was under the control of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham organization.
In a video broadcast on Instagram , he referred to the Islamic State, among other Islamic terrorist organizations. Anzorov's family said they did not understand his actions. Anzorov had displayed signs of radicalization: on 30 August, he had posted a photomontage depicting a beheading on his Twitter account. Investigators are uncertain as to whether his requests were made to enable him to access sensitive sites. Anzorov's body was repatriated from France in December ; he was buried in his hometown in the Urus-Martanovsky District in Chechnya.
