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A judicial source said that another 5 people were arrested, on Friday night, on Saturday, following the murder of a teacher by beheading near an institute in the western suburbs of Paris, raising the total number of people arrested in relation with this attack to 9.
The judicial source explained that among the last five detainees, the father of a student from the “Conflan Saint Honorine” school, where the teacher worked, and people from the non-family environment of the aggressor, indicated that it was an eighteen-year-old Chechen origin, born in Moscow.
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the murder of the teacher, who displayed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a classroom, was an “Islamic terrorist attack.”
Macron added, near the scene of the attack, where the perpetrator cut off the head of the victim before the police shot him, that “the whole nation” is ready to defend the teachers, and that “obscurantism will not win.”
On Friday, French police announced 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 said that this teacher had shown his students cartoons that were offensive to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
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.
A police source said witnesses heard the attacker chanting “God is great.” The police spokesman said that this information is being verified.
For its part, Al-Azhar condemned the incident, saying in a statement that it rejects this heinous crime and all terrorist acts, stressing that murder is a crime that cannot be justified in any way.
Al-Azhar affirmed his constant call to reject hate speech and violence, whatever its form, source and cause, calling for respect for religious sanctities and symbols, and to refrain from inciting hatred by insulting religions.
Al-Azhar called for the need to adopt global legislation that criminalizes the insult to religions and their sacred symbols, and to show the morals and teachings of religions that emphasize respect for the beliefs of others.
