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Four people, including a minor, were detained from Friday night to Saturday after the murder of a history and geography teacher near a school in Conflanse-Saint-Honoré in western Paris, a source told AFP. close to the judiciary.
These people belong to the environment of the author of the attack, who was shot dead by police, the same source clarified.
The murder yesterday of a teacher who showed his students the drawings of Muhammad shocks France, which has been hit again by an “Islamist terrorist attack”, as described by President Emanuel Macron, three weeks after the attack in front of the old offices . from the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo.
“They will not win. Darkness will not win “Macron said, apparently annoyed, calling on France to form a “united front” last night after the murder of a history and geography teacher outside the school where he taught at Conflan Saint-Honorine in the western suburbs of Paris.
Parents who had gathered outside the school referred to the deceased as Mr. Patti, while French media reported that his name was Samuel Patti.
Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex visited Conflan Saint-Honorine hours after the attack, and a government crisis council was convened to investigate the crime.
“One of our citizens was killed today because he was teaching, because he taught to the students the freedom of expression ”, stressed Macron.
Immediately after the attack, which took place on Friday around 5:00 p.m. local time (6:00 p.m. Greek time) near the school where the teacher was teaching, the direction of the prosecutor’s office that handles terrorism cases launched an investigation into ” murder in the context of a terrorist act “. And “establishment of a terrorist criminal organization”.
Four people, including a minor, members of the perpetrator’s family, who were killed by police fire, were detained overnight, an AFP judicial source told AFP.
Terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard will give a press conference later today.
The perpetrator, who shouted “Allah Akbar” and was killed by police, according to a source close to the investigation, has not yet been identified. An identification document found on him states that he was born in 2002 in Moscow, according to a judicial source.
Authorities are also investigating a message posted on a now-closed Twitter account that shows a photo of the victim’s face, under which Macron was described as a “leader of the infidels.” The authorities are investigating whether the person who published it, who says he will take revenge on “the one who dared to humiliate Muhammad”, is the author of the professor’s murder.
According to the first data of the investigation, the teacher showed a sketch of Muhammad to his students last week. A report was presented to Rodrigo Arenas, co-president of the Federation of Parents and Guardians Associations, who spoke of “an extremely irritated father.”
The teacher who was killed, according to Arenas, “urged Muslim students to leave the classroom” before showing Muhammad’s sketch.
Barbarism
Shocked by this unthinkable crime, students and parents met last night by AFP in the neighborhood where the attack occurred, which they described as a quiet area, with no criminal record.
“I saw him today, he came to my classroom to see our teacher, I am amazed that I will never see him again,” said Thiago, a student. “We have the impression that this only happens to others, but no, it happened at our door, at our house,” added his father, Alfredo.
The assassination also sparked a wave of outrage in the French political world, regardless of party affiliation. In the French National Assembly, the deputies rose to “pay homage to the memory” of the professor and condemn the “Disgusting attack”.
“The murder of a history professor is an attack on freedom of expression and the values of democracy,” said the president of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, in a message on Twitter.
“The horrible murder of a teacher”, also condemned former president Francois Hollande through Twitter. “More than ever we must remain united in the face of barbarism and darkness.” My thoughts are with the teacher’s family and the entire educational community, “said Hollande, who was president of France in 2015 when the country was rocked by terrorist attacks. deadliest in its history.
The “unbearable level of barbarism” of this attack was condemned by the president of the extreme right National Alarm, Marin Le Pen, while the leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Melanson, condemned the “heinous crime”.
Charlie Hebdo, whose editorial team was decimated in January 2015, expressed on Twitter “his horror and outrage,” noting that “intolerance has led to other levels.”
The attacker struck shortly after noon in front of a Charlie Hebdo office in Baghdad, killing at least three people.
The perpetrator of this Islamist attack told investigators that he acted in response to the publication and reissue of Muhammad’s cartoon magazine in early September, when the trial for the January 2015 attack began.
Along with Patti, 259 people have been victims of the unprecedented wave of jihadist attacks that has rocked France since 2015.
