The French prime minister promised that the state would take the toughest possible measures to defend the republican idea.

“The republic was stabbed in the heart by Islamist terrorism through one of its defenders,” Prime Minister Jean Castex reacted on Twitter to the brutal murder in which a Moscow-born Chechen student killed and beheaded a history teacher high school on the outskirts of Paris.

“By showing solidarity with its teachers, the state will react in the most decisive way possible so that the republic and its citizens can live freely. We never give up. Never, ”said the prime minister.

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke in an equally determined tone Friday at the crime scene.

The teacher, Samuel Paty, 47, showed his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in his class while talking about freedom of expression. The parents of several students in the class also protested against this, and the teacher was reportedly threatened.

On Friday, an 18-year-old Chechen boy born in Moscow on the open street killed Paty with a knife and then cut off her head. The police shot him because he disobeyed their call.

Counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said an investigation had been launched into the terrorist killing. He also added that

The author was granted refugee status and a 10-year residence permit in France in March and was not known to the secret services.

France has provided refuge for many Chechens since the Russian military launched an offensive against Chechen Islamist separatists in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The authorities detained several relatives of the perpetrator. A total of nine people were arrested, including the killer’s parents, grandfather, 17-year-old brother, the father of one of his fellow students and another man, and several friends, Ricard said. The Attorney General added that in 2014, one of the perpetrators’ father’s half brothers joined a terrorist organization called the Islamic State in Syria.

Preliminary investigation findings show that the killer asked local students about Samuel Paty. He also posted a photo of the head of a geography history instructor on Twitter. In the accompanying message, he wrote to send a message to the “leader of the unbelievers”, French President Emmanuel Macron, who had graduated with a “hellish race that despised the prophet Muhammad.”

The Russian embassy in Paris said the attacker had no contact with Russia.

The murdered teacher’s high school was taken over by mourners. Several teachers with the inscription I appeared on the scene.

In January 2015, two jihadist assassins staged bloodbaths in the editorial office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris: 12 people were shot dead and 11 others wounded. The terrorist attack was justified because they wanted revenge because the newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

In three weeks, this is the second terrorist attack in France that can be linked to the Mohamed cartoons. Last month, a young Pakistani man was arrested for wounding two people with the arm of a butcher near the former Parisian editorial office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Due to the republished cartoons of Mohamed, the man thought about setting fire to the editorial board of the joke.



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Macron called the teacher's beheading an Islamist murder


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The police fired at the perpetrator and several of those around him were arrested. The teacher may have killed him because he showed his students the cartoons of Mohamed that appeared in Charlie Hebdo.

They beheaded a teacher in a Paris suburb


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The attacker was shot by the police, the murder is being investigated by the French counterterrorist.