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Friday October 16, 2020
In Paris, a man has his neck cut on the street. The media reports that the history teacher studied the controversial cartoons of Muhammad with his students. According to the police, the attacker was shot and killed. It is said that he screamed “God is great”.
According to media reports, the victim of a brutal knife attack near Paris is said to be a history teacher. He is said to have shown his students cartoons of Mohammed during class on the topic of freedom of expression, various media outlets reported, citing police sources in the evening. Initially there was no official confirmation. Interior Minister Gérard Darmanin announced a crisis team with President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex.
The attacker was an 18-year-old, Franceinfo reported. Eyewitnesses were also said to have reported the attacker shouting “God is great” in Arabic. There was also initially no official confirmation for this. The attack occurred in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, in the late afternoon. The victim is said to have been attacked near the school where he taught and, according to initial findings, was beheaded. The perpetrator was killed by the police. The prosecutor’s counter-terrorism investigators took over the investigation. The Paris anti-terrorist prosecutor confirmed that he is investigating, among other things, a murder with a terrorist background
According to information from the “Daily Mail”, the alleged perpetrator is said to have used an explosive vest and threatened the arriving officers with a pistol, among other things. Explosives experts were summoned. Police wrote on Twitter that there is currently an operation in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and that people should avoid the area.
In recent years there have been repeated attacks by Islamist militants in France. Last month, a Pakistani immigrant attacked and injured two people in front of the former office of the satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” with a butcher knife. The newspaper had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Twelve people were killed in an attack by Islamists on the newsroom in January 2015. For some Muslims, such cartoons are blasphemous.
At the same time, the trial against the alleged aides of the January 2015 terrorist series has been taking place in Paris since the beginning of September. You can only enter the Crystal Palace under strict security conditions.
