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French President Emmanuel Macron has described the murder of a teacher by beheading as an “Islamic terrorist attack.”
The bomber struck shortly after noon in the northwestern suburbs of the capital, Paris. The dead man reportedly showed his students controversial cartoons about the Prophet of Islam.
The attack took place in front of a school around 5 pm local time. The Anti-Terrorism Police Department is investigating the incident.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited the site.
Macron said the teacher was killed because he was teaching “freedom of expression.” The name of the deceased has yet to be released.
The attacker was shot and killed by police while trying to arrest him shortly after the attack. Police did not provide details about the attacker.
Three weeks ago, two people were attacked and injured in front of the former office of the French satirical magazine Shirley Hebdo.
In 2015, at least 11 people were killed in an attack by Islamist extremists on Shirley Hebdo’s office, a case that is still under investigation.
What will be known about the incident?
The assailant attacked the victim with a large knife in the Konfa-Sant-Onorin area and cut his neck.
The attacker tried to flee, but the locals rushed to the scene after informing the police.
Members of the police were able to arrest the attacker in the Erhani area. At that moment, the police yelled and told the assailant to surrender, but the assailant threatened the police.
At that moment, the police opened fire on the attacker, who died shortly after.
A tweet from the French police department urged locals to avoid the area.
What is the identity of the murdered person?
According to Le Monde, the deceased was a professor of history and geography.
Shirley Hebdo magazine discussed with students in class the involvement of free speech in publishing cartoons about the Prophet of Islam, causing outrage among Muslims.
According to French media reports, some Muslim parents also complained to school authorities earlier this month for displaying one or more of the cartoons that Shirley Hebdo had printed of the Prophet of Islam.
There have been multiple attacks by Islamist militants in France since 12 people, including a prominent cartoonist, were killed in an attack on Shirley Hebdo’s office in 2015.
On Friday, deputies of the French National Assembly appeared in parliament to mourn the dead. They call the attack a “brutal terrorist attack.”
French Interior Minister Gerald Dermanin is returning to France urgently after shortening his visit to Morocco.
The country’s Education Minister, Jean-Michel Blanco, tweeted that an attack on one teacher amounted to an attack on the entire French republic.
He also expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased and said that the only response against “Islamic terrorism” was unity and determination.
Source: BBC
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