Brutal attack near Paris: beheaded teacher showing Muhammad

According to police, it was a history teacher who recently showed students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Prosecutors consider the attack, which continues in the writing of the authors of the bloody 2015 attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, to be a terrorist incident.

Charlie Hebdo angered many Muslims around the world by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

A few weeks earlier, another attacker in an earlier issue of the publication in Paris injured two people who he believed worked there.

Friday’s incident occurred around 5 p.m. local time (6 p.m. Lithuanian) near the school in the western suburb of the French capital, Konflan Saint Honorine.

Police arrived at the scene after receiving a report of a suspicious person hacking near the school, a police source said.

There, officers found a dead man and, some 200 meters away, saw a suspect armed with a knife-like object. That person threatened the police.

The assailant, who was shot by the police, died of injuries sustained when the police shot him, a judicial source said.

The incident was fenced off, a demining unit was dispatched on suspicion of an explosive belt there, a source said.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, after speaking with Prime Minister Jean Castex and President Emmanuel Macron, immediately ended his visit to Morocco and will return to Paris, his office said.

Macrones: the history teacher was the victim of a terrorist attack

A few hours after the brutal attack, French President Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex visited Conflan Saint Honorine, at which point government officials met in an emergency meeting to discuss the attack.

“One of our citizens was killed today because he taught because he taught students freedom of expression,” Macron said.

“The murder of a history professor is an attack on freedom of expression and the values ​​of the Republic,” Richard Ferrand, president of the French National Assembly, wrote on Twitter.

Sources: Four people arrested, including a minor.

Four people, including a minor, were arrested after the horrific attack, an AFP news agency reported on Saturday.

The detainees are linked to an assailant who was shot to death by police after the teacher was killed.

The incident occurred on Friday around 5 pm local time (6 pm Lithuanian) near the school in the western suburb of the French capital, Konflan Saint Honorine.

Police arrived at the scene after receiving a report of a suspicious person hacking near the school, a police source said.

There, officers found a dead man and, about 200 meters away, saw a suspect armed with a knife-like object. That person threatened the police.

The assailant, who was shot by the police, died of injuries sustained when the police shot him, a judicial source said.

According to an AFP source in the police, the attacker, surrounded by officials, shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greater than all).

The president, who was clearly dismayed, also told reporters that “the entire nation” was ready to defend the teachers, adding that “darkness would not prevail.”