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France: Authorities Identify Man Who Beheaded A Teacher

  • People leave flowers and candles at the school where teacher Samuel Paty was killed in Paris, France, Oct.17, 2020

    People leave flowers and candles at the school where teacher Samuel Paty was killed in Paris, France, Oct.17, 2020 | Photo: EFE

Published 17 October 2020
Opinion

The attack occurred this Friday after the teacher showed a cartoon of Muhammad in his class.

French authorities Friday identified the attacker who beheaded a history teacher in a Paris suburb after the professor had shown a caricature of Muhammad in a classroom.

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The crime was committed after a father of a student posted a video on social networks denouncing that the murdered 47-year-old teacher, Samuel Paty, had shown a caricature of Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression.

France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office Director Jean-François Ricard revealed that the author was an 18-year-old Chechen origin born in Moscow in 2002 who had refugee status in France. He was shot dead by the police.

As reported by the police, they shot down a man with a kitchen knife, who was behaving aggressively on a street in the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine commune, located in the northwestern suburbs of Paris.

The man did not respond to the request to drop his weapon and he was hit by several gunshots. Along with the assailant, officers found the body of a decapitated man who was later identified as the professor.

The French police arrested nine people, one of them a minor, as part of the investigation opened over what is considered a terrorist attack.

Among the detainees are several family members of the alleged perpetrator, who was living in Evreux (about 100 km northwest of Paris), according to judicial sources.

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, called the crime an "Islamic terrorist attack" with which the author wanted to attack the Republic.

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