The French authorities initially refused to grant refugee status to the family of 18-year-old Chechen Abdulak Anzorov, who killed and beheaded a French teacher near Paris. However, the court forced the state to change the decision, writes Point magazine.
According to the newspaper, the young man's family arrived in France in 2008 from a village located south of Grozny. Anzorov at that time was six years old.
The French authorities considered the Anzorov family's applications for asylum and refused to grant them political refugee status. However, they managed to obtain this status through a court in 2011. If not for the decision of the National Asylum Court, the family would have had to leave France.
The murder took place on the evening of October 16 in a suburb of Paris. The perpetrator tracked down the teacher at the college, killed him and beheaded him. After the attack on the teacher, he published a photo of the severed head on his social network account and turned to French President Emmanuel Macron, stating that he “executed the teacher who dared to humiliate the Prophet Muhammad.” Later, during the arrest, he was shot. According to law enforcement officers, the killer was a Chechen, who was born in Moscow and at the age of six moved with his family to France, where he received the status of a political refugee.
The Russian embassy in France has already stated that the killer had nothing to do with Russia and did not contact the diplomatic mission.
