Mourad Hamyd turned himself in to police in his home town of Charleville-Mézières, near the Belgian border, after he was named as one of three suspects in the attack, which killed 12, and saw his name on social media.
Soon afterwards, people claiming to be his classmates started tweeting under the hashtag #MouradHamydInnocent. “He’s in my class, and he was there for lessons this morning,” wrote @babydroma.
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Others also joined in on the same hashtag: “Imagine that you went to class with your mate, and then in the evening he is accused of [taking part in] the attack. Please retweet #MouradHamydInnocent,” said @_neednobody.
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Another teenager, @AnyceDz, who said Hamyd was a friend and the two had spent the morning together, changed his profile name to #MouradHamydInnocent. He tweeted that school officials had advised him to stop giving interviews about his friend.
TheGuardian
It must be very frightening to be Muslim these days.
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