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Kerzenmeer vor der Schule Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in Gedenken an den getöteten Geschichtslehrer.
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Paris: shock and deep horror in France: another attacker brutally beat because of the Muhammad cartoons. The perpetrator ambushed a teacher in a Paris suburb and later beheaded him. Prime Minister Jean Castex said that the republic had been struck to its heart by Islamist terrorism. There were several arrests. Scores of people took to the streets across the country on Saturday in solidarity with the dead.
According to the prosecutor Jean-François Ricard, the alleged aggressor is a man of Russian and Chechen origin, born in 2002. He came to France as a refugee and has had a residence permit since spring. The Moscow-born man has yet to be noticed by the secret service. Police shot the man shortly after the crime.
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After the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty, the attacker posted a photo of the victim online and sent a message to French President Emmanuel Macron, whom he described as the “leader of the infidels.” “I executed one of your hellhounds who dared to look down on Mohammed.” Twitter announced that the post was quickly removed and that the account had been blocked.
The incident occurred on Friday afternoon in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. There, the attacker killed the 47-year-old teacher; his body was found decapitated with numerous wounds to the upper body and head. Investigators also found a bloodstained knife about a foot long near the crime scene.
Die Polizei beim Absichern einer Straße in Eragny.
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The perpetrator had the students show it to the teachers.
Prosecutor Ricard reported that the assailant had approached the students in the street to show the teacher he was targeting. The attack was preceded by threats against the teacher and the school. The teacher had addressed the topic of freedom of expression as part of the class in early October. The occasion was the renewed publication of the Muhammad cartoons by the satirical magazine Charlie hebdo. The teacher showed the corresponding cartoons in class.
Then a parent posted posts on social media, complained to the school leadership, and mobilized against the teacher. According to the media, the father was accompanied to the school by a known Islamist who, like the father, is now in police custody.
“Je suis Samuel”https://news.google.com/”Ich bin Samuel” – steht auf einem der Schilder, die vor der Schule abgelegt wurden.
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Just a few weeks ago I was in front of the old editorial building of Charlie hebdo given a knife attack in Paris. Two people were injured; here too, the author had given him caricatures of Muhammad as a motif. To the editors of Charlie hebdo There was a devastating assassination attempt in January 2015, in which the newspaper’s top cartoonists were murdered. The trial against the alleged aides of the Islamist terrorist series is underway in Paris, in which a total of 17 people died. The editorial office is now in a secret location for security reasons.
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer described the act as an attack on the separation between religion and church. “Clearly there are enemies of the republic, they are against the republic and therefore against the school, because the school is the backbone of the republic,” he said. France has a long secular tradition, Church and State have been separate for more than 100 years. Freedom of religion is also enshrined in the constitution of the fifth republic of 1958.
National memorial event planned
Shortly after the crime, President Macron had already spoken of an act of Islamist terrorism. It is no coincidence that a terrorist murdered a master of all people because he wanted to attack the country’s values, said the head of state visibly beaten near the crime scene. A national commemorative event is planned, he said from the presidential office.
Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron reiste wenige Stunden nach dem Anschlag an den Tatort.
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In the fight against radical Islamism, Macron had recently focused on education as a central element. Distance learning for stay-at-home children will be strictly limited starting next summer. The lessons are compulsory from the age of three. “The school educates the free spirit, enlightened citizens, and that is exactly what Islamists, who live on stupidity, ignorance, indoctrination and hatred, cannot tolerate,” said Interior Minister Marlène Schiappa, at Franceinfo.
There was also great international sympathy after the brutal attack. In Austria, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) condemned “the barbaric Islamist terrorist attack” in France “in the strongest terms. My condolences to the relatives of the victim and our full solidarity with France.”
Ich verurteile den barbarischen islamistischen Terrorangriff heute in #Frankreich auf das Schärfste. Mein aufrichtiges Beileid gilt den Angehörigen des Opfers und unsere volle Solidarität Frankreich.
— Sebastian Kurz (@sebastiankurz) October 16, 2020
“My thoughts are with the teachers, in France and throughout Europe. Without them there are no citizens. Without them there is no democracy,” wrote the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. German Chancellor Heiko Maas emphasized: “We must never be intimidated by terror, extremism and violence.”
France has been rocked by Islamist attacks for years: more than 250 people died. Therefore, people are almost always aware of the threat of terrorism. The French government has made the fight against terrorism a priority and continues to warn that the threat of terrorist attacks is very high. (APA / dpa / Reuters)
Glorified act in Paris: investigation on deputies in Tunisia
The Tunisian prosecutor has opened an investigation into a parliamentarian who glorified the alleged terrorist murder of a teacher near Paris. The deputy prosecutor and court spokesman in Tunis, Mohsen Dali, said on Saturday, according to the state news agency Tap.
Chiari’s contribution is undoubtedly the glorification of a terrorist act, the spokesman said. While shock and deep horror prevail in France over the beheading of a teacher, Chiari defended the act on his Facebook page on Saturday morning. “Offending the Messenger of God” is “the greatest crime,” he wrote there. Whoever committed it would have to face the consequences.
I can waive my immunity and my parliament, but I will not waive my conviction for the crime, “Chiari wrote after the prosecution announced it in another Facebook post. The prophet is” more important and greater than fame, parliament , politics and the whole world ”. The comments showered criticism and outrage.
Tunisia’s anti-terrorism law prohibits publicly and explicitly praising and glorifying terrorist acts and their perpetrators inside and outside Tunisia. Violators can be punished with prison terms of up to five years. Chiari won a seat in parliament as part of a right-wing religious movement in the 2019 elections before becoming an independent MP.
