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The police killed the suspect of beheading a teacher in the middle of the street in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, events that are being investigated by the National Anti-terrorist Prosecutor’s Office.
It was “an Islamist terrorist attack,” French President Emmanuel Macron Macron said in a statement to the press in the town where the attack took place.
The teacher “was assassinated today because he taught, because he explained to his students the freedom of expression, the freedom to believe and not to believe,” he stressed.
Islamist terrorists “will not pass” over the democratic values of the Republic and “religious obscurantism will not win” in what he called a “battle,” said the French president.
The incident took place near Bois d’Aulne Secondary School, and a police source said witnesses had heard the attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” or “God is the greatest.”
The digital “Actu 17”, specialized in security information, was one of the first to point out on its website that the victim would have shown some cartoons of Muhammad in class. This could be the motivation of the murderer, known to the police services, according to the same media.
The attacker, who was eventually neutralized, was wearing a belt that made one think that it could be explosives.
The Police imposed a wide security perimeter and requested the presence of members of the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office, which has finally taken over the investigation.
Charlie Hebdo’s messages
The trial for the January 2015 terrorist attacks against the satirical medium “Charlie Hebdo” is currently being held in France. After its opening in September, the magazine republished the controversial cartoons of the Muslim prophet, prompting Al Qaeda to once again launch deadly threats against the outlet.
The medium published a series of messages on Twitter to express its condemnation of this new act of barbarism. “Charlie Hebdo expresses his feelings of horror and rebellion after a teacher in his profession was assassinated by a religious fanatic. We express our deepest support to his family, loved ones and all teachers, ”he says on his Twitter.
“This filthy act afflicts our democracy but it must make us more combative than ever to defend our freedom (…) Intolerance has just crossed a new threshold and does not seem to stop at anything to impose its terror on our country. Only the determination of political power and the solidarity of all will defeat this fascist ideology, “added the satirical magazine.
At the end of September, a man with a butcher knife attacked two employees of a news agency who worked in the building where the former headquarters of “Charlie Hebdo” is located in Paris. Both survived but were seriously injured. The author, a Pakistani citizen, was arrested a few minutes later and confessed his authorship.
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