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Headless Master: New details about the attacker known (18)
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Macron: “This battle is our battle, and it is existential”
A history teacher was murdered outside a school in a Paris suburb. French President Emmanuel Macron describes the act as a “clearly Islamist terrorist attack.”
A man has been beheaded near Paris. The victim is a teacher who discussed cartoons of Muhammad with his students. President Macron speaks of a “clearly Islamist terrorist attack.”
reThe apparently Islamist attack on a history teacher near Paris was carried out by an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin. According to information from the Judiciary, an identification document was found in the young man, according to which he was born in Moscow in 2002. The beheading of the teacher on Friday near a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine caused great consternation in France. As of Saturday, nine people were detained by the police in connection with the attack.
Among those detained were the grandparents, parents and a 17-year-old brother of the alleged killer, France’s counterterrorism prosecutor said. The father of a student who allegedly had an argument with the teacher about his lessons was also detained. The man had complained online that the teacher had shown his students nude cartoons of Muhammad. The attacker, who was shot by police near a crime scene northwest of Paris, has yet to be prosecuted in France or registered for radicalization.
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Friday night near the crime scene in the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine suburb of a “distinctly Islamist terrorist attack.” “One of our fellow citizens was killed today because he was teaching, because he taught the students freedom of expression, the freedom to believe and not to believe,” Macron said visibly ill.
The 40-year-old teacher was reportedly assaulted in the street on Friday afternoon and beheaded. The antiterrorist prosecutor took over the investigation. The victim is said to have shown cartoons of Muhammad in class. The alleged perpetrator, who according to witnesses shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) after the crime, was arrested by the police in nearby Éragny and shot shortly thereafter. Investigators reported that he was armed with a knife, had a soft pistol with plastic bullets, and refused to lay down his weapons.
The class was on freedom of expression.
In France there is speculation about the motive for the crime. It is said that the teacher showed Muhammad cartoons in class on the subject of freedom of expression. There was also disgust at school; the professor was threatened, Franceinfo reported. The father of a 13-year-old boy told France Inter that the teacher asked Muslim students if they wanted to leave the room before showing the photos. The professor was not “condescending or disrespectful.”
It was unclear if the alleged perpetrator was related to the school. Broadcaster BFM reported in a video that a schoolboy’s father is said to have posted on YouTube earlier this month. The video should also have been about the Mohammed cartoons.
President Emmanuel Macron visited the crime scene near Paris on Friday night.
“I call on all our compatriots to stay together, to be united,” President Macron said at the scene. “He won’t get away with it,” he said, referring to the violence and terrorists.
“Islamism is waging war against us: we have to expel it from our country,” right-wing politician Marine Le Pen replied on Twitter. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer wrote online about an attack on the republic: “Our unity and determination are the only answer to the enormity of Islamist terrorism.” To attack a teacher means to attack all French citizens and freedom, wrote the president of the National Assembly. , Richard Ferrand, on Twitter.
Police officers secure the area near the crime scene
What: REUTERS
Just a few weeks ago there was a knife attack in front of the former editorial building of the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris. Two people were injured; here too, investigators assume a terrorist background. In January 2015 there was a fatal attack on the editorial team of “Charlie Hebdo”. At the beginning of the trial, the magazine had republished cartoons of Muhammad and was seriously threatened. The author of the knife attack stated that he could not bear it.
Again and again Islamist attacks in France
At the same time, the trial of the alleged helpers of the terror series in January 2015, in which a total of 17 people died, has been taking place in Paris since the beginning of September. You can only enter the Palace of Justice in high security conditions. A verdict is expected in November. The editorial staff of “Charlie Hebdo” expressed their condolences to the relatives of the murdered teacher.
A man was beheaded in an Islamist-motivated attack in 2015. A 35-year-old man was overwhelmed while attempting to set off explosions at an industrial gas plant in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon. He had previously beheaded his employer and stuck his head out with two Islamist flags at the factory fence.
France has been rocked by Islamist attacks for years: more than 250 people died. Therefore, people are almost always aware of the threat of terrorism. The French government has made the fight against terrorism a top priority and continues to warn that the risk of terrorist attacks is very high.
