Ajmal Shahpal published tweets on 26 September 2020 showing support for a terrorist who attacked...

Published: 1:34 pm May 11, 2023
Updated: 10:31 am October 8, 2025
A Twitter User Who Encouraged Others To Commit Terrorism Has Been Locked Up

Ajmal Shahpal published tweets on 26 September 2020 showing support for a terrorist who attacked members of the public close to Charlie Hebdo’s former offices in Paris a day earlier.

The 41-year-old also posted tweets, between 15 October 2020 and 30 October 2020, praising the murder of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed in a Paris suburb on 16 October 2020 after showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. He posted further messages encouraging similar violence.

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