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The incident occurred around 5 p.m. Friday near a school in the suburb of Conflans Sainte-Honorine northwest of Paris. Prosecutors for the French counterterrorism operation have been involved in the case and are investigating the attack. According to French police, the person’s entire neck was cut off.
The alleged perpetrator was shot by the police.
The alleged perpetrator, who according to French media is 18 years old, subsequently threatened the police with an object similar to a knife. The police shot him and he died.
Police tell Reuters the victim was a teacher.
The crime is being investigated as “a murder linked to a terrorist organization,” according to the prosecutor’s antiterrorist unit.
According to unconfirmed information to the French the newspaper Le Parisien The victim had recently given a free speech lesson and showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
During the evening, French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said that the attack on the teacher is an attack on the country.
“France will stand firm against monstrous Islamist terrorism,” Blanquer said in a statement, Reuters reports.
The President: The whole country supports its teachers
The country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, was present at Conflans Sainte-Honorine. He describes the incident as an attack on freedom of expression.
-A citizen has been murdered today because he was a teacher and because he gave a lecture on freedom of expression, says Emmanuel Macron when he visited the place.
– The whole country is after its teachers. Terrorists will not divide France, hostility to education and free thought will not prevail, Macron said.
The night before Saturday, four people were arrested, one of whom was a minor. They are related to the aggressor, the police state.
