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The detainees, including a minor, were from the family of the attacker, who was killed by the police, reported Saturday night from judicial circles. France’s head of state, Emmanuel Macron, said in the evening that it was “clearly” an “Islamist terrorist attack.”
According to information from the Judiciary, an identification document was found on the perpetrator, according to which the attacker was born in Moscow in 2002. However, formal identification is still pending. You can read more details about the attack here.
Murder investigation
Police also reportedly investigated a tweet on the short message service Twitter, which is said to have displayed a photo of the teacher’s head. The tweet is now blocked. It is not clear if the message below the photo, in which President Macron is threatened as the “leader of the infidels”, was sent by the attacker himself.
According to the police, the victim is a history teacher who showed his students controversial cartoons of Muhammad as part of his class on freedom of expression. The attacker is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) in the city northwest of the French capital. He was shot by police and later died, according to judicial sources.
The Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the alleged “murder in connection with a terrorist company” and a “terrorist criminal organization”.
“You will not pass”
Speaking briefly to the school where the history teacher taught, President Macron said: “They will not pass. They will not divide us.” The teacher was killed for teaching his students “freedom of expression and the freedom to believe and not believe.” Macron assured that the nation will stand united against “enlightenment” and the violence that accompanies it to “protect and defend” all teachers.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) assured France of his full solidarity on Saturday night. He condemned the “barbaric Islamist terror attack” in the strongest possible terms, Kurz said on Twitter. It expresses its deepest condolences to the family of the victim. “We will not be intimidated by this and we will continue to defend our European way of life,” emphasized the foreign minister.
In September there was a knife attack with two wounded in Paris due to the reissue of the controversial cartoons of Muhammad in the satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo”. The confessed perpetrator is a 25-year-old Pakistani who claims to have acted “angry” at the Prophet’s interpretation. We inform.
The satirical newspaper expressed a “feeling of horror and outrage” after Friday’s event on the online service Twitter. Intolerance “has just crossed a new threshold.” In January 2015, Islamists carried out an attack on the editorial staff of “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris due to the cartoons, killing twelve people.
