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French police sealed off the accident scene and chased the suspect until he was killed in a neighboring town
The French teacher, who was assassinated and beheaded, receivedOneShawارع The capital is ParisDeath threats for days before the crime occurred, after he showed his students offensive cartoons for the prophet Muhammad from the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, according to French media.
French authorities arrested nine people suspected of being involved in the crime, including the father of a student at the school where the victim worked, according to French judicial sources.
On Friday, police killed the perpetrator near the crash site.
Reports say the attacker is 18 years old and of Chechen origin.
The incident coincided with a trial in Paris against those accused of the 2015 attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, after it published insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday’s incident had all the hallmarks of an “Islamic terrorist attack”, adding that the victim “was killed because he taught his students freedom of expression.”
Speaking from the scene hours after it happened, he emphasized national unity. “They will not win and they will not separate us,” he said.
What do we know about the attack?
The attack took place around 3:00 GMT on Friday, near a secondary school in the suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine, 30 km northwest of central Paris.
A man with a large knife attacked the teacher and beheaded him. The attacker then fled, but police rushed to the scene immediately after notification of the attack.
When the police asked the gunman to surrender, he began to threaten and the forces shot him and he died shortly after.
A security cordon was imposed around the crash site while the investigation continues.
In a tweet, the police urged people to avoid the area.
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Macron said from the scene that the teacher was killed because “he taught the students freedom of expression.”
Who was the victim?
The victim, Samiol Patti, was reportedly a history and geography teacher who had taught a lesson on freedom of expression earlier in the month.
He is said to have shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad while speaking about the Charlie Hebdo case and advised Muslim students to leave the room if they thought they might be offended.
Some Muslim parents complained to the school and French media reported that the teacher had received threats, which were not specified, as a result of this lesson.
“My son told me that the teacher (the dead man) was very kind, very kind and generous,” Noureddine Al-Shawadi, the mother of one of the students, told AFP.
“Fanaticism has reached a new level and it seems that it will not stop imposing terrorism in our country,” tweeted Charlie Hebdo magazine.
France has experienced a wave of Islamist violence since the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, which killed 12 people, including famous cartoonists.
Three weeks ago, when the trial began, a person assaulted and injured two men in front of the magazine’s former offices.
What are the reactions in France?
In the National Assembly, the French Parliament, deputies stood up to honor the teacher and condemn the “brutal terrorist attack”.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin interrupted a visit to Morocco and quickly returned to Paris.
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blancer tweeted that the teacher’s murder was an attack on the French Republic.
He expressed his condolences to the victim’s family, saying that unity and firmness are the only answer to “Islamic terrorism.”
