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A history teacher was beheaded by an 18-year-old Islamist. He had shown a cartoon of Muhammad in class.
He wanted to teach his students the basics of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. But history teacher Samuel P.’s attempt at Bois d’Aulne Secondary School in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, a suburb in the north-west of Paris, ended in his death. The head of state of France, Emmanuel Macron, spoke of an “Islamist terrorist attack”. In a brief speech at the school, he assured: “No passaràn!”, You will not pass. Religious fanatics should not divide the nation. France will join in the “enlightenment” and the violence that accompanies it.
The brutal act on Friday delves into those wounds that have not wanted to heal in the Parisian population since the attack on the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” in 2015. Another murder is linked to a controversy over freedom of expression. While many take to the streets this time also to express their solidarity with the victim and defend the ideals of the enlightenment, radical Islamism is driving an ever-deepening gap in the population.
The alleged perpetrator, an 18-year-old man, was found by the police shortly after the murder thanks to tips from neighbors. Because he threatened and assaulted the officers with a bloody kitchen knife, they knocked him down several times. He was dead on the spot. Before being arrested, he still had time to brag about his terrible bloodshed on Twitter and post a ghoulish photo showing that he had beheaded his victim in the manner of an Islamist execution. Based on this initial situation, the authorities assumed a terrorist crime from the beginning and the investigation was commissioned on site to the anti-terrorist brigade.
