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PARIS (VG) The teacher dies in what is called a beheading in a suburb of Paris. The teacher had shown cartoons of Muhammad in class, French police say according to French media.
On Saturday night, four people were arrested in connection with the murder.
One of the detainees is said to be a minor, AFP reports at 01:00 on Saturday night. They do not cite named sources in the French judiciary.
All four are said to be related to the alleged perpetrator, who was shot and killed by police, NTB writes.
News came in on Saturday morning that five new people have been arrested, writes AFP. Information on his connection to the murder has not yet been received.
At a press conference on Saturday, French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer confirmed that it was Professor Samuel Paty who was found dead.
DEAD: The French Chancellor confirms that 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty has been killed. The photo was uploaded to the professor’s Flickr account in 2008. Photo: Private
According to FranceInfo, the 47-year-old teacher had received threats after showing students the cartoons a week ago.
According to the French media, he was a professor of history and geography, and showed cartoons in connection with an hour on freedom of expression.
According to the AP news agency, the teacher must have received a complaint from one of the parents of one of the students. The alleged perpetrator apparently has no direct connection to the school itself, according to a law enforcement source.
– One of our fellow citizens was killed today because he taught about freedom of expression, the freedom to believe and not to believe. He was cowardly attacked and was the victim of an Islamist terrorist attack, says French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the daily Le Figaro.
Macron on Friday condemned the attack on the teacher and said the attack should not divide the country.
– Tonight I want to tell all the teachers in France that we are with them, that the whole nation will be by their side today, tomorrow, to protect them, defend them, let them do their work.
Says Islamist terrorists will not win.
– France will respond quickly and with authority, he says.
The suspect was shot and killed
AFP and several French newspapers reported shortly after 6.30 p.m. on Friday night that a man had been beheaded in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. The attack occurred around 5 p.m. near a school.
French media write that the police tried to arrest a man with a knife who behaved in a threatening manner near where the body was found. According to Le Parisien, the man tried to escape and refused to lay down his weapon. He was then shot and killed by the police.
The perpetrator is an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, writes AFP.
The area was cordoned off and a bomb squad was called in because police feared there were explosives in the area where the perpetrator was shot.
Ongoing terrorism investigation
France’s counterterrorism unit PNAT is investigating the incident, writes Reuters. Police say they are investigating the incident as “a murder linked to a terrorist organization,” according to various news agencies.
Macron was on the scene
President Emmanuel Macron was at the scene Friday night, according to Le Figaro. He previously participated in an emergency meeting on the subject at the Interior Ministry.
The National Assembly has condemned what they call “a heinous attack.”
Education Minister Blanquer said in a video posted on the ministry’s Twitter account at 12 o’clock on Saturday that the murder is an attack on all teachers and urges to stand united:
– This teacher was assassinated for what he represented: the Republic. They killed him for what he embodied: knowledge and critical thinking, that is, in the construction of free and enlightened citizens. That is the heart of what we do in schools. They killed him for giving an hour of freedom of expression. It is a heinous and cowardly act. It is an attack on the republic, because the school is the backbone of the republic, he says. in the video.
On Saturday morning, Erna Solberg also posted a condemnation of the attack on Twitter:
Charlie Hebdo: – Shocked and upset.
The attack comes at the same time as a trial in the wake of the terrorist attack on the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2015, which killed 12 people.
The reason Charlie Hebdo became the target of the attack was that the satire magazine had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad several times.
On Twitter, the satire magazine expresses its deepest condolences to the family, loved ones and all the teachers at the school. They write that they are “shocked and upset” that a teacher has been killed by a “religious fanatic.”
– Intolerance has just crossed a new threshold and does not seem to stop for anything that inflicts terror on our country. Only through political power and solidarity for all will we defeat this fascist ideology, they write in the same Twitter thread.
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