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French police announced on Friday that they had shot dead a man who had murdered a teacher minutes earlier at a preparatory school on a street in a Paris suburb.
A police source told Agence France-Presse that this teacher had shown his students offensive cartoons for the Prophet Muhammad.
French President Emmanuel Macron said a man who killed a history teacher showed his students in high school cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in this attack aimed at hitting free speech.
“The citizen was murdered today because he was a teacher and because he was teaching students freedom of expression,” Macron added, near the school where the teacher was killed in a northwestern suburb of Paris. Macron described the attack as Islamic terrorism.
“The whole country supports the teachers. The terrorists will not divide France … the obscurantism will not win,” he said.
The French counter-terrorism prosecutor said he was investigating the attack in the suburb of Conflans Saint-Honorine, in the northwest of Paris.
A police patrol saw the suspected attacker carrying a knife a short distance from the scene of the attack. A police spokesman said police shot the suspect and killed him.
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Another police source said the dead man was beheaded in the attack, but this was not confirmed.
The French judiciary treats the attack as a “terrorist incident”, which coincides with the trial of the alleged accomplices of the attackers of the newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” in 2015, and comes a few weeks after an attack by a man who injured two people he thought worked for the newspaper.
The place was cordoned off and the demining department personnel were admitted on suspicion of an explosive belt.
And the Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanan, who is in Morocco, decided to return immediately to Paris.
At the end of last month, a migrant from Pakistan injured two people after attacking them with a machete in front of the former headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
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