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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.
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.