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Police arrested several people in the vicinity of the alleged perpetrator, as confirmed on Saturday by the anti-terrorist prosecutor of the German press agency. The alleged attacker was killed by police on Friday.
“First of all, my first feeling is fear, but I think that is exactly what these terrorists are looking for,” Deputy Interior Ministry Minister Marlene Schiappa told Franceinfo. “Schools educate the free spirit, enlightened citizens, and that is exactly what Islamists, who live on stupidity, ignorance, indoctrination and hatred, cannot tolerate.”
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.”
The Turkish Cultural Community in Austria (TKG) also condemned “the cold-blooded murder” in a broadcast. Birol Kilic, President of the TKG: “Criminals who justify their cold-blooded killings with a religion are, regardless of the motive, as murderers as all other criminals. This was not only an attack on the victim, but also on the republic and democracy the secular constitutional state. “
The gruesome act occurred on Friday afternoon in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. There, the assailant is said to have assaulted the history teacher on the street. President Emmanuel Macron went to the scene of the crime that night, but did not elaborate on the crime in a short statement. Macron, visibly shaken, called the attack an Islamist terrorist act. Both the mayor of the place and Schiappa spoke of a beheading.
A total of nine people were in police custody on Saturday. Relatives of the alleged perpetrator and others are reportedly involved. According to the media, the alleged perpetrator is an 18-year-old Chechen born in Moscow. He is said to have boasted of the man’s death online after the crime and according to Schiappa, he was previously unknown to the secret services.
In France there is speculation about the motive for the crime. The teacher is said to have shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class on the subject of freedom of expression. Islamists had previously murdered in France and other countries because of such cartoons. There was also disgust at school; the professor was threatened, Franceinfo reported.
The father of a 13-year-old boy told France Inter that the teacher asked Muslim students if they wanted to leave the room before showing the photos. The teacher was not “condescending or disrespectful.”
Macron had already very clearly endorsed the teachers on Friday night. It is no coincidence that a terrorist murdered a teacher of all people because he wanted to violate the values of the country, said the head of state. From the Elysee circles it was said that a national commemoration was planned. The date has not yet been set.
In the fight against radical Islamism, the head of state had recently focused mainly on education as a central element. Distance learning for stay-at-home children should be strictly limited starting next summer, Macron announced in early October. Exceptions should only be made for health reasons. The lessons are compulsory from the age of three.
Just a few weeks ago there was a knife attack in front of the former editorial building of the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris. Two people were injured in the process; here too, the author claimed that the published Muhammad cartoons were the motive for the crime.
In January 2015, there was a devastating murder attack on the editorial staff of “Charlie Hebdo” in which the newspaper’s leading cartoonists were assassinated. The trial of the alleged aides of the Islamist terror series is ongoing in Paris in January 2015, in which a total of 17 people died.
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 risk of terrorist attacks is very high.
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