The child - called Ahmed - allegedly refused to take part in a minute's silence at his school, in Nice, on January 8 in honour of the victims of the terror attacks in Paris earlier this month.
According to Marcel Authier, head of the region's public security, the boy's teacher said the child also expressed 'solidarity' with the Islamist gunmen, who shot dead 12 at the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on January 7.
The child was questioned by police for half an hour on Wednesday, thelocal.fr reported.
Mr Authier, who said no complaint has been filed against the child, said: 'In the current context, the principal of the school decided to report to police what had happened.
We summoned the child and his father to try and comprehend how an eight-year-old boy could hold such radical ideas.'
He added:
'Obviously, the child doesn't understand what he's saying.'Sefen Guez Guez, who is the boy's lawyer, wrote on Twitter that the child admitted saying the words:
'I am with the terrorists'.
But when police asked him what 'terrorism' meant, he said: 'I don't know'.
But when police asked him what 'terrorism' meant, he said: 'I don't know'.
End time kid
ReplyDeleteAt 8yrs?of cos he knows exactly what he's saying, terrorist in d making.
ReplyDeleteNo waste time...Bring that kid to Nigeria and let our Moms do the interrogation and showing him what terrorism means......Am very certain that he will get a clear picture after a few days!!# Belt and cane things#
ReplyDeleteHis father should be questioned, #EndtimePikin i'm sure he saw his father or listened to his dad praising the terrorist. he must have picked some words from his parent.
ReplyDeleteAt dis young age? Nawa oo
ReplyDeleteTerrorist in the making
ReplyDeleteBLOG ANALYSER: Abeg! Oo he should be interogated
ReplyDeleteAnd who said he dosent know the meaning of what he said? Why give him a lawyer then? You people should talk to the hand.!!
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm wonder shall never end..
ReplyDeletea.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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His family and other family members should be arrested bcos he knew those things frm someone close to him no doubt.....
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The kid must have picked some words from his parent.
ReplyDeleteif d kid can praise killing of innocent souls he definitely knows d meaning of terrorism.
ReplyDeleteNa so rebellion dey take start
ReplyDeleteDe should watch dat child closely!!
ReplyDeleteChucky.
ReplyDeleteThe child should be observed he might not know the meaning still have eyes on him.
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