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PARIS, KOMPAS.com – French President Emmanuel Macron reacted to reports of the beheading of a teacher for displaying a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
In the attack that occurred at 5:00 p.m. local time in the vicinity of the school, the aggressor was shot dead by police officers who came to the scene.
To the media on the spot as reported BBC On Friday (10/16/2020), Macron called the case an attack carried out by terrorists.
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“One of our citizens was killed today (Friday) because he was teaching, he was teaching freedom of expression,” he said.
During a meeting of the French parliament, the vice president stood up and observed a moment of silence in honor of the murdered teacher.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who was visiting Morocco, reportedly returned home after the incident.
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer tweeted in which he called the teacher’s murder an attack on the state.
Blanquer conveyed his condolences to the victims and their families, and called for unity and resistance as weapons against these extremists.
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As happened?
It all started when the perpetrator, carrying a large knife, attacked the teacher in the streets of the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, where the educator was beheaded.
Based on reports Reuters, a police source revealed that the perpetrator had yelled something before fleeing.
Police discovered his action after receiving reports from residents that law enforcement officers confronted the man on the streets of the Eragny district.
When authorities yelled at the suspect to surrender, the perpetrator responded by threatening and shooting him dead.
To local media, sources from the judiciary said that nine people, including minors, had been arrested in connection with the attack.
The suspects of being arrested are the relatives of the aggressor and the parents of the students that the teacher taught before he was killed.
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Who are the victims?
The local media The world Preached, the educator is a teacher in the field of History and Geography, where at the time of the incident he taught freedom of expression.
He taught by tying it to a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, which was published by a satirical magazine. Charlie hebdo and harvest the wrath of global Muslims.
The unidentified educator has asked Muslim students to leave the classroom if they are offended by his teaching.
Then, in early October, several Muslim parents lodged complaints with the school about the teacher’s decision to use the cartoon.
“By my son’s admission, he’s a super fun person, super friendly and he likes to make friends,” the student’s mother, Nordine Chaouadi, told AFP.
In response to the murder, Charlie hebdo He claimed that intolerance had reached a new limit and that terror could not be stopped in France.
“Wine Country” has experienced a wave of violence due to extremists since the attacks on Charlie hebdo in 2015, in which 12 people died.
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