Chechnya buries teenager who beheaded French school teacher - rights adviser


  • World
  • Tuesday, 08 Dec 2020

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A teenager who beheaded a French school teacher in a killing that convulsed France has been buried in his native Chechnya after his relatives repatriated his body, a local human rights expert said on Monday.

Abdullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old male born in Muslim-majority Chechnya, was shot dead in October by French police after slaying middle school teacher Samuel Paty in a suburb of Paris.

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