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French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday night that the beheaded professor at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, was the victim of a “typical Islamist terrorist attack” and assured that “the obscurantism and violence that accompany will not win. ” .
“One of our fellow citizens was assassinated today because he teaches, because he teaches the students freedom of expression, freedom to believe and not to believe,” the president said soberly at the Bois d’Aulne college. where the victim had professed.
“Our compatriot was cowardly attacked, he was the victim of a typical Islamist terrorist attack,” insisted the head of state, adding that “obscurantism and the violence that accompanies this gesture will not win.” “They will not pass,” he said, calling the nation to “cohesion.”
“This unity is indispensable,” Macron said in a short speech, Agerpres reports.
Emmanuel Macron had arrived at 9:10 p.m. at the Conflans school, in the Yvelines department, where the teacher had taught, accompanied by the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, and the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin.
He left after nearly an hour and a half of discussions with the teachers in shock. The president offered his condolences to the relatives and relatives of the murdered teacher.
Expressing his support to all the teachers of the Bois d’Aulne school, he addressed all the teachers in France, stating that “the whole nation will be with them, now and in the future, to protect them, to defend them. That allows them to do their job, the most beautiful of all, because it sets citizens free ”.
“It is no coincidence that if a teacher was murdered by a terrorist tonight it is because he wanted to kill the values of the Republic, the Enlightenment, the possibility of making our children free citizens. This is our battle, ”said the French president.
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said he would receive representatives from the secondary school and the students’ parents on Saturday. He will also address all teachers, educational personnel and their families through a video to express a “reaction of absolute solidarity and solidarity from our entire institution,” the minister wrote on Twitter.
Emmanuel Macron also thanked the police who “intervened with exemplary courage and exceptional speed to end the deadly career of this terrorist.”
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Four people, including a minor, were arrested in this case.
Four people, including a minor, were detained from Friday night to Saturday after a history professor was beheaded near a university in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the western suburbs of Paris, a source said. judicial.
These people come from the family circle of the assailant, who was killed by the police, according to the cited source.
The suspect was detained by police officers from a BAC team of the crime fighting brigade on the territory of the neighboring municipality of d’Eragny, in Val d’Oise. Refusing to obey orders, the police fatally shot him. According to various media reports, Conflans’ attacker was an 18-year-old man born in Moscow.
The attack, which took place around 5:00 p.m., generated a wave of emotion and anger.
The National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) announced that it had filed ex officio charges against a “murder in connection with a terrorist act and a terrorist criminal association of offenders.”
The attack comes as the trial for the attacks on Charles Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher supermarket in January 2015 continues in a special court in Paris. In a statement, the satirical weekly expressed Friday night “its feeling of horror and revolt after a teacher in the exercise of his profession was assassinated by a religious fanatic.” “Religious intolerance has just crossed a new threshold and does not seem to back down at anything to impose its terror on our country,” continues Charlie Hebdo.
A police source said late Friday that the teacher had displayed one or more cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the classroom.
His murder comes three weeks after a robbery in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, where the editorial office of the satirical magazine was located during the January 2015 massacre.
The street shooter Nicolas-Appert, a Pakistani national arrested by the police, wanted to “rebel” against the reissue of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons with Muhammad during the trial, but did not declare his membership in any group, he said. later the national antiterrorist prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard.
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