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An extremely brutal act of violence occurred on Friday near a school in a Paris suburb: an attacker cut off the head of a teacher on the street. A terrorist background is suspected.
According to initial findings, an attacker decapitated a man near Paris. The prosecutor’s counter-terrorism investigators took over the investigation. One of the investigations is for murder with a terrorist background, the anti-terrorist prosecutor of the German Press Agency confirmed this Friday in Paris.
The victim is said to have been attacked on Friday afternoon in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on the street near a school. It appears to be about a history teacher who is said to have shown his students cartoons of Muhammad during class on the subject of freedom of expression, various media reported, citing police sources. Initially there was no official confirmation.
After the crime, the suspects allegedly attacked the police.
Police are said to have arrested the alleged perpetrator shortly after the crime in nearby Éragny-sur-Oise. According to the media, he tried to attack the agents and they shot him. As reported by the AFP news agency, citing judicial circles, the man later died. Fearing an explosive vest, the area was cordoned off and explosives experts were called in.
The attacker was an 18-year-old, Franceinfo reported. There was also initially no official confirmation for this. Investigators said the attacker was armed with a stabbing weapon. The mayor of Éragny-sur-Oise, Thibault Humbert, spoke of an “incredibly violent” act, was there and in contact with the investigators.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex were expected at the venue in the evening, as Elysee circles confirmed. A crisis team was created and the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, interrupted a trip to Morocco. “Islamism is waging a war against us: we have to expel it from our country,” replied far-right politician Marine Le Pen on Twitter.
Fighting terrorism is the government’s top priority
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.
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. At the same time, the trial of the alleged assistants of the attackers in the editorial office of “Charlie Hebdo” has been carried out in Paris since the beginning of September, in which a total of 17 people died. You can only enter the Crystal Palace under strict security conditions.
