The Chechen teen who decapitated a teacher in France was reportedly training at a “largely-Chechen” MMA facility in Paris that has now been identified by French police as a “hotbed for potential extremists.”
The news was reported in the wake of a nationwide investigation into the gruesome attack. Abdoulakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, beheaded French high school teacher Samuel Paty earlier this month after Paty showed cartoons in his classroom depicting the Prophet Muhammad, an act that is blasphemous in Islam. Paty had presented the cartoons as part of a presentation on freedom of speech.
Anzorov was shot dead by French police shortly following the attack.