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On Friday, French police announced that they had shot dead a young man who had murdered a teacher minutes earlier at a preparatory school on the outskirts of the capital Paris after he showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, God bless him and grant you peace, in a class on freedom of expression.
Al-Jazeera France office director Ayach Draghi said the 47-year-old teacher showed pictures of the Prophet that had been published by Charlie Hebdo magazine, and informed Muslim students before showing the pictures and allowed them leave the class if they did not want to see, adding that several families of the students had complained to the school management. Then the teacher later apologized and admitted that he had taken up the subject and should not have.
The French counter-terrorism prosecutor said he was investigating the attack in the suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine northwest of Paris.
A police patrol saw the suspected attacker (under the age of 20) carrying a knife a short distance from the scene of the attack, and a police spokesman said the suspect had been shot and killed, and that the killer had posted a photo of the victim.
A police source said witnesses heard the attacker chanting “God is great.” The police spokesman said that this information is being verified.
French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the crime scene and the Interior Minister has interrupted a visit outside the country.
At the end of last month, a migrant from Pakistan wounded two people after attacking them with a machete in front of the former headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which published insulting cartoons of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
Those accused of killing two journalists from the magazine who had published insulting cartoons of the Prophet in 2015 are on trial.
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