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French police confirmed late Friday night reports in the French media, including Le Parisen, that the man had used the controversial cartoons in teaching.
An alleged perpetrator was shot and killed after behaving in a threatening manner, police say.
The man’s identity has not been officially confirmed, but according to sources, an identification card was found showing that he was born in Moscow in 2002. During the attack, he allegedly shouted “Allahu akbar”, which in Arabic means “God is the larger”. ».
Sources inform AFP that four people, including a minor, have been arrested after the attack. All must be related to the alleged perpetrator.
Police are stopping traffic near the site where a history professor was beheaded on the outskirts of Paris on Friday. The case is being investigated as an act of terrorism Photo: Michel Euler / Ap / NTB
Macron: the nation must not be divided
French President Emmanuel Macron visited the scene on Friday night, where he described the attack as an “Islamist terrorist attack.”
– One of our compatriots was killed today because he taught about freedom of expression, the freedom to believe or not to believe, Macron said clearly marked.
The president further said that the attack should not divide France, because that is exactly what the extremists are looking for.
– We must all unite as citizens, he said.
Charlie Hebdo Trial
The news of the murder comes at the same time that a trial takes place in the wake of the terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2015, in which twelve people died.
The reason Charlie Hebdo became the target of the attack was that the satire magazine had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad several times.
History teacher
Friday’s attack took place around 5 p.m. at a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb west of the French capital. The victim was a history teacher in high school, and he had recently shown cartoons of Muhammad and discussed them in teaching, for which he later received threats, police officers say.
A police car drives through barricades near the site where a history teacher was killed in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on Friday. Photo: Michel Euler / Ap / NTB
Police say they are investigating the incident as “a murder linked to a terrorist organization.” They rushed to the scene after receiving a phone call about a suspicious man who was staying there.
They then discovered the victim and found the alleged perpetrator a few hundred meters away. Police say he had a knife and an alleged soft pistol, and that he objected to the arrest. The man was shot and wounded, and later died from his injuries.
In the aftermath of the incident, a bomb squad also moved to the scene, fearing that there might be a bomb vest there. The public was warned not to approach the venue.
Cancel the trip
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who is traveling to Morocco, will return to Paris immediately after the incident. He has had talks with Prime Minister Jean Castex and President Emmanuel Macron, Darmanin’s office said.
The incident is reminiscent of an attack that took place in the French capital at the end of September, when two men from a television production company were attacked with a meat ax in front of the former Charlie Hebdo facility. They were seriously injured but survived. A 25-year-old Pakistani has been charged with the crime.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said shortly after the attack “it was obviously an Islamist terrorist act.”
The 25-year-old is said to have justified the act by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the satire magazine.
