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French police shot dead a man suspected of fatally stabbing a teacher minutes earlier on the streets of a Paris suburb.
The teacher had shown the students in his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which Muslims consider blasphemy, according to a police source.
France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor said he was investigating the attack, which took place in Conflans Sainte-Honorine, a suburb northwest of Paris.
Prosecutors said they were treating the incident as “a murder linked to a terrorist organization” and related to a “criminal association with terrorists.”
A police source said the victim had been beheaded in the attack, but this was not confirmed.
The alleged assailant was discovered by a police patrol while carrying a knife a short distance from the scene of the attack.
Police shot and killed the suspect, according to a police spokesman.
A police source said that witnesses had heard the attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” or “God is the greatest.” The police spokesman said the information was being verified.
French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin said he had established a crisis center to deal with today’s attack and was keeping President Emmanuel Macron informed.
In recent years, France has witnessed a series of violent attacks carried out by Islamist militants.
At the end of last month, a man who immigrated to France from Pakistan used a butcher knife to attack and injure two people outside the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
That was the place where Islamist militants gunned down employees of the magazine five years ago in retaliation for its publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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