A junior high school teacher has been beheaded on the street in the northwest suburb of Paris. The teacher had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a “freedom of expression class,” AFP said. The beheading was carried out by a history teacher. The teacher was killed around 17:00 in the small city of Conflans-Saint-Honorine, more than 30 kilometers from Paris, not far from the junior high school where he taught. French President Emmanuel Macron went to the emergency center of the Ministry of the Interior in the evening of the 16th. According to the latest news, the president will be present at the scene of the crime. Parliament strongly condemned the barbaric crime.
The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the case as an “assassination linked to a terrorist enterprise” and a “criminal terrorist organization”. The police have not yet released the identity of the suspect. According to French news radio, the murderer is an 18-year-old born in Moscow. Investigators are checking to see if a photo of a teacher posted on the Internet and insults to Macron as “infidel leader” le dirigeant des infidèles” are the work of the perpetrators.
According to police sources, the teacher’s killer died of his injuries during the manhunt. AFP reported that police found the victim on the spot, 200 meters away from the junior high school. When police were looking for the murderer, he was threatened with a knife and police shot him.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who had left for Morocco on a trip, immediately returned to Paris.
On September 25, two people were seriously injured in a machete attack in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. This “act of Islamic terrorism” took place on the same day that the widows of the two perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo attack testified in court.
On January 7, 2015, two militants broke into the Charlie Hebdo headquarters and opened fire with assault rifles on the crowd, killing twelve people. two days later, they fled into a printing plant, took hostages, and confronted police before being killed. “A branch of al-Qaeda later “claimed” the attack.
French Politicians Are Outraged
At 17:00 on the 16th, a junior high school history teacher was brutally beheaded in a northwestern Paris suburb. He had been showing caricatures of Mohammed in a class on freedom of expression. Immediately after the incident, the visiting interior minister returned, and the French president himself rushed to the scene. French politicians, left and right, far left and far right, were united in their condemnation of the barbaric acts of radical Islam.
French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer tweeted: “The despicable murder of a teacher is an attack on the Republic. My condolences to his memory; condolences to his family. In the face of brutal Islamic terrorism, “Our unity and determination is the only answer. We will never back down!
Tonight a teacher was brutally murdered by radical Islamists, says Valérie Pécresse, President of the Paris Regional Council. He wants to destroy us; he wants to silence our teachers. We will never agree to that.
Eric Ciotti, a UMP deputy, said: “In the face of Islam, we have to stop retreating. This is like fighting a war. Words and expediency will not work, we must act!
French Socialist MP Boris Vallaud said: “I am outraged by this barbaric act! The core of the republic is gathered on campuses; teachers; in the teaching of freedom. My first thought is of the victims and the relatives of the victims. We must preserve freedom equality and fraternity, none less!
Xavier Bertrand, the Republican president of the “Haute-France” administrative region, said: “Islamic barbarity has attacked our schools. An attack on a school is a symbol of an attack on the French Republic. These terrorists want to silence us, to bring us to our knees. We will not give in. Islamic radicalism can never forbid us to read, to write, to draw, to think, to raise people.
Alexis Corbière, an MP from the extreme left party “France Unbowed”, writes: Terror in the extreme. Peace, unity, fraternity, and secularism belong to everyone who lives in the Republic. We have to fight against religious insanity. The hatred and violence exuded by the madmen who claim to represent God will not break us.
The Conflans have committed a shameless crime,” said Mélenchon Mélenchon, a member of the National Assembly and leader of the France Insoumise. The assassin made himself God, he defiled the religious faith. And the murderer made us see clearly that we still have to live with these scum,” said the French far-right leader Marie-Laurent Le Moyne.
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen said: “Islam has declared war on us! A teacher is beheaded for showing a caricature of Mohammed in the classroom. Do we have to suffer such barbaric acts? We should use force to deport him.
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