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A history teacher who started a discussion with students about the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad of Islam was beheaded on a French street and the suspected killer was shot dead by police, a police officer said.
The French counter-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into the homicide for murder with an alleged terrorist motive, the prosecutor’s office said. The gruesome incident occurred in the town of Eragny, in the Val d’Oise region northwest of Paris.
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A professor has been beheaded in Paris and the suspect has been shot and killed by French police.
A police officer said the suspect, armed with a knife and an airsoft pistol, was shot to death by police about 600 meters from where the teacher was killed. The teacher had been threatened after opening a discussion “for a debate” about the cartoons, the police officer told The Associated Press.
The official could not be identified, he is not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigations.
It was the second terrorism-related incident since the opening of an ongoing trial into the January 2015 newsroom massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
The newspaper recently republished cartoons of the prophet. A young man from Pakistan was arrested after stabbing two people outside the newspaper’s former offices who sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
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