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The Grand Mosque of Pantin, located in a low-income suburb of the capital’s northeastern suburb, had shared a video on its Facebook page prior to the hate-venting attack on history teacher Samuel Paty.
Police posted a notice of a closure order outside the mosque as authorities promised to respond harshly to hate message spreaders, radical preachers and foreigners believed to pose a security threat to France.
“The order, which is valid for six months, has the sole purpose of preventing acts of terrorism,” read a notification issued by the head of the Seine-Saint-Denis department as quoted by the press. Reuters.
The Chancellor of the Grand Mosque of Panin, M’hammed Henniche, this weekend expressed his regret by sharing the video on social media, after it was discovered that Paty was the victim of a vicious online campaign of intimidation even before he was killed.
In the video, a Muslim father of one of Paty’s students said that the history teacher had selected Muslim students and asked them to leave the classroom before showing the cartoon. He calls Paty a goon and says he wants his teacher to be removed.
Henniche told Agence France Presse that he had shared the video, which was filmed by the father of a student at Paty’s school, not in support of the complaint but out of concern for Muslim children.
The student’s father is now in police custody.
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