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The French anti-terrorist squad announced that it had been called in to intervene after the beheading death of a man on Friday afternoon outside Paris. According to a source quoted by the France-Presse news agency, an investigation was opened for “murder related to terrorist activity” and “terrorist criminal association”.
Around 5 pm in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (less an hour in Lisbon), a team from the anti-crime squad saw an individual wielding a knife. When the police asked him to take him down, he refused, as they shot him and found him seriously injured. A few meters away, authorities found the body of a decapitated man.
The agents did not immediately approach the suspect because he was wearing an explosive vest, writes the newspaper “Le Figaro”.
Actu 17, a publication specialized in security information, says that the victim will be a secondary school teacher from that place, who would have shown cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in the classroom. That could be the motive for the murder, which the authorities are investigating.
Authorities were called to the scene, located 50 kilometers northwest of Paris, when a suspect was found loitering at a school, according to a police source.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who is traveling to Morocco, decided to return immediately to Paris.
