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A suspected terrorist believed to be wearing an explosive vest was shot dead by French police near Paris after he allegedly beheaded a school teacher with a knife.
The victim was said to be a school teacher who had angered parents by showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to students.
A source told Le Parisien: “The victim had recently taught his students a lesson on freedom of expression and had shown the cartoons of Muhammad.”
This led an enraged father to confront the teacher with a kitchen knife and then cut off his head, the source said.
The first bloodbath took place on Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb about 40 miles from the center of the French capital.
French counterterrorism prosecutors confirmed that they were investigating an assault in which a man was beheaded on the outskirts of Paris.
The attack occurred around 5 pm (1500 GMT) near a school in Conflans Saint-Honorine.
An image of a body lying in the middle of the road was shared on Twitter after French counterterrorism prosecutors confirmed they were investigating an assault in which a man was beheaded on the outskirts of Paris.
“The body of the beheaded man was found around 5.30 in the afternoon,” said an investigating source.
“When the police arrived, the alleged perpetrator was still present and threatened them with his weapons.”
The unidentified killer then fled to the nearby town of Eragny-sur-Oise, about two miles away, where he refused to surrender.
“At that time he was brandishing a weapon and threatened the officers,” the source said. “That was when the police shot him dead. About ten shots were heard.”
An image shared on Twitter showed police gathering on a street in Eragny-sur-Oise, where the police are said to have shot and killed the suspected terrorist after a chase.
In the picture: more emergency services gathered after the attack and the subsequent shooting.
Counterterrorism prosecutors immediately began investigating the incident, said the source, who said the attacker was being viewed as a “suspected terrorist.”
The French news station FranceNews24 suggested that the attack was related to cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by Charlie Hebdo.
Witnesses saw the man beheading his anonymous victim, who was also a man, in broad daylight and near a school.
Officers rushed to the scene after the alarm was raised and saw the killer flee towards Eragny.
At 7pm, the scene of the alleged murder and the scene where the killer was shot and killed had been sealed.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin “was on his way to the scene of the attack,” said a spokesman for his ministry, which also confirmed it as a terrorist investigation.
The unidentified killer fled to the nearby town of Eragny-sur-Oise (pictured) about two miles from where the alleged beheading occurred, where he refused to surrender and was shot and killed by police.
There have been a number of bomb, gun and knife attacks carried out by Islamic State and Al Qaeda operatives in France, dating back to early 2015.
The deadliest terrorist attack ever recorded in the country occurred in November 2015, when 130 people were killed in Paris.
Suicide bombers who swore allegiance to ISIS attacked the Stade de France, cafes, restaurants, and the Bataclan music venue, killing 90 people.
Earlier this year, two Paris-born gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda stormed the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, leaving 17 dead inside and three outside.
In July 2016, 86 people were killed and more than 400 injured when a 19-ton truck was deliberately driven into crowds on the seafront in Nice, southern France.
The terrorist turned out to be a Tunisian immigrant who was shot dead by the police.
During the same month, two Isis terrorists murdered an 86-year-old Catholic priest during a religious service in Normandy.
There have been frequent knife attacks on law enforcement officials, resulting in the death of active police officers.
In October last year, a radicalized computer operative working in the Paris prefecture, in central Paris, stabbed four of his colleagues to death.
The attacker, who was also shot and killed, turned out to be a Muslim convert who kept extremist literature and images from Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State on his computer.
