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Police cordoned off the crash site
French President Emmanuel Macron said a teacher was massacred in a suburb northwest of the capital Paris, which was the victim of an “Islamic terrorist attack.”
Macron added that the man “was killed because he asked for freedom of expression.”
Macron’s comments came while he was visiting the crime scene, near a school in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, northwest of the capital.
French officials said police shot and killed the attacker.
Media reports claimed that the teacher displayed a recently republished cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in a classroom, although he advised Muslim students to leave the room if they thought it was an insult to them.
The Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office has been summoned to undertake the investigation of the attack in a suburb of Conflans Saint-Honorine.
And the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanen, who was visiting Morocco, decided to return urgently to Paris.
The attack occurred at 17:00 local time (15:00 GMT) near a school.
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.
The trial of the alleged accomplices of the perpetrators of the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2015, in which many people died, is ongoing. The magazine had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Three weeks ago, a Pakistani attacked two people outside the magazine’s former headquarters, which recently republished the cartoons as the trial began.
