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Beheading of a teacher near Paris: nine people in custody
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6 photos decapitation of a teacher near Paris
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Paris Once again, France is shocked by an alleged Islamist terrorist act: a teacher is brutally murdered after discussing the controversial cartoons of Muhammad with his students. The arrests are made hours later.
After an alleged terrorist attack on a history teacher in a Paris suburb, the police arrested four people and later confirmed the arrest of five others. Now there are nine people in detention.
One of them is a minor, the prosecutor responsible for anti-terrorism investigations Jean-François Ricard said late Friday. The detainees are reportedly believed to be members of the alleged perpetrator’s family and others.
A man armed with a knife beheaded the teacher in the street of the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine parish. Following the bloody act, the alleged perpetrator was shot dead by the police. Before his death, the teacher had discussed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad with his students and had received threats, said an investigator who did not want to be named.
President Emmanuel Macron spoke of an “Islamist terrorist attack” and called on the nation to stand united against extremism. The antiterrorist prosecutor’s office opened an investigation.
The victim taught her students that you have the freedom to believe or not believe something, Macron said. The man was killed for this. At the same time, the country must not allow itself to be divided by the law, because that is exactly what the extremists wanted to achieve. “We all have to unite as citizens,” Macron warned.
According to French media reports, the alleged attacker is an 18-year-old Chechen born in Moscow. This was not initially confirmed by the police. Numerous Chechens have received asylum in France since the wars in the Russian republic in the 1990s and 2000s.
After the attack in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in northwest Paris, the suspect was shot and killed in neighboring Eragny after behaving in a threatening manner, a police investigator said. In addition to his knife, he had a soft pistol with plastic bullets and he refused to put down his weapon.
In his class last week, the teacher started a debate on the Muhammad cartoons, sparking protests and attacks across much of the Islamic world. A parent of a student reported him for this, another investigator said. It was unclear if the alleged perpetrator was related to the school.
In January 2015, following the publication of controversial cartoons of Muhammad, extremists attacked the Paris satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” and killed numerous members of the editorial team. The newspaper recently republished such cartoons. As a result, two people were stabbed but not seriously injured in front of the magazine’s former office.
Here is the photo gallery: Master beheaded near Paris: suspected terrorism in France
