The French President, Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that the beheaded professor near Paris was the victim of an “Islamist terrorist attack.”
Macron, who spoke briefly from the spot where a man beheaded the teacher before being killed by police, said “the entire nation” was ready to defend the teachers.
“They will not pass, the obscurantism and the violence that accompany it will not win,” added Macron, who took the floor after meeting with teachers from the Bois d’Aulne school, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a city of 35,000 inhabitants 50 km from Paris, where the teacher taught.
The victim had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class. He was beheaded on Friday afternoon a few meters from the school, three weeks after an attack in Paris in front of the former offices of the weekly Charlie Hebdo, who published cartoons of Muhammad and was targeted by jihadists in 2015.
