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A judicial source announced that the attacker, suspected of beheading a French teacher, showed his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, an 18-year-old Chechen-born, in an attack that President Emmanuel Macron described as an “Islamic terrorist attack. “.
Police arrested nine people as part of the attack that took place on Friday near the school where the teacher worked in Conflans Saint-Honorine, about 30 km northwest of Paris.
Police shot the attacker and later died from his injuries.
Police said the victim was a 47-year-old history teacher named Samuel Patti. He had recently shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a study session as part of a discussion on freedom of expression, which was followed by complaints from some families.
Four of the relatives of the alleged attacker, two brothers and Wijdan, were detained by the police for questioning.
The judicial source told AFP on Saturday that five other people were arrested as part of the attack, including the father of one of the school’s students.
According to the source, the detained parents expressed their opposition to the teacher’s decision to show the fees.
The other three people who were arrested for questioning belong to the suspect’s unfamiliar background. And the four who were detained by relatives.
The attack occurred at a time when the trial sessions of the alleged accomplices of the perpetrators of the attack were continuing, which in January 2015 targeted the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, unleashing a wave of anger throughout the Islamic world.
The newspaper reprinted the cartoons on September 1, at the beginning of court sessions.
This attack comes three weeks after an attack with a sharp tool by a 25-year-old Pakistani in front of the former headquarters of “Charlie Hebdo”, which resulted in two people being seriously injured.
– “Darkness will not triumph” –
Identification documents found with the perpetrator of the teacher’s murder showed that he is 18 years old, born in Moscow, but from the Chechnya region in southern Russia.
The attacker shouted “God is great” as police surrounded him, according to a police source.
French prosecutors specializing in terrorism cases said they had opened an investigation into the commission of a “crime linked to a terrorist act” and the formation of a terrorist criminal group.
Police said they were investigating a tweet posted by a closed Twitter account that featured an image of the teacher’s head.
Attached to the image was a threatening letter to Macron, “the leader of the infidels,” whose editor said he wanted revenge “on those who dared to mock Muhammad.” It was unclear if the author of the message was the attacker, according to police.
Macron said when visiting the site of the apparently affected attack that “the whole nation” supports the teachers to “protect and defend them”, adding that “the dark will not triumph.”
On Saturday, her office announced the celebration of a “national monument” for Patti.
“Our teachers will continue to awaken the critical spirit in the citizens of the republic to get them out of all totalitarianism,” Prime Minister Jean Castex wrote in a tweet.
The Strasbourg-based Chechen Council in Europe said in a statement that “like all French people, our society was horrified by the incident.”
Four woods
At school, parents and teachers praised Patty, who was very loved and was also a father.
Martial, 16, a former student of Patti, said the teacher liked his work: “He really wanted to teach us things, sometimes we had debates.”
“I saw him (the teacher) today, he came to my class to talk to our teacher. I’m surprised I won’t see him again,” said Thiago, a student at the school.
“According to my son, he was very nice and very kind,” local resident Noordin Shawadi told AFP.
Sources revealed that one of the detainees posted a recording on social media expressing shock at the presentation of drawings showing the prophet Muhammad “naked” on his daughter’s side.
The father was said to have been described in the video recording Patti as a “rogue” and that he should not continue his education, asking other parents to act.
Rodrigo Arenas, president of the FCBI Parents Association, said that a complaint from the father was “very emotional.”
He added that Patti asked the Muslim students to leave the room before the cartoons were shown.
Virginie, 15, said that Patty had taken that step every year as part of a debate on freedom of expression after the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine.
Charlie Hebdo tweeted “a feeling of horror and disgust” at the attack on Friday.
Police went to the scene of the attack after receiving a call about a suspicious person wandering the school, according to a police source.
The police found the victim at the scene, and tried, two hundred meters away, to arrest a man carrying a knife and threaten them, then they shot him, causing serious injuries that led to his death.
