Lyon: a Month After the Murder of an Iraqi Christian, the Investigation Entrusted to the Anti-Terrorist Pole
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He was the third victim of an Islamist attack in 2025. Ashur Sarnaya, a disabled Iraqi Christian in a wheelchair, was murdered by an Islamist terrorist at the bottom of his building in Lyon on September 10th. Loading... The Lyon Public Prosecutor's Office has just been divested of the investigation for the benefit of the anti-terrorist pole of the judicial court in Paris, the two authorities said on Monday 13 October, relayed by TF1 Info.
A Iraqi Christian in a wheelchair was killed in September in Lyon, hit on the neck with a white weapon. The investigation was entrusted this Monday to the anti-terrorist justice. A suspect had been arrested in Italy in early October as part of this investigation. - Lyon: one month after the murder of an Iraqi Christian, the investigation entrusted to the anti-terrorist pole (Police, justice and other facts).
On September 10, 45-year-old Ashur Sarnaya was stabbed in front of his home in Lyon while he was shooting a live video on social networks.
A Christian from Iraq in a wheelchair was killed with a stabbing weapon in early September in Lyon. A 28-year-old Algerian was arrested in Italy last week.


Ashur Sarnaya, 45, was stabbed in front of his home on September 10 while he was shooting a live video on TikTok.
On Wednesday, September 10, Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old Iraqi Christian with a disability, was murdered while he was shooting one of his usual direct videos on TikTok devoted to the Christian religion. That evening, his murderer had waited at the foot of his Lyon building, where the Christian influencer, who was travelling in a wheelchair, had lived for about ten years. In front of the Internet users, horrified involuntary witnesses of the assa…
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