The attacker attacked in Conflans-Saint-Honorine northwest of Paris with a man’s knife. According to most media, he cut off his head, Reuters reported that he stabbed him. Police are investigating it as a terrorist attack. FranceNews24 reported that one of the witnesses heard the attacker shout Allah akbar (Arabic Allah is great).
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According to several French media, the victim of the attack is a 47-year-old high school history teacher who recently lectured students about freedom of speech and showed them cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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The perpetrator should be one of the pupils’ parents. After the attack, he refused to give up the police, fled to a neighboring town, where the police caught up with him. Because he threatened them with a weapon, he was shot.
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The attack was condemned by French politicians led by President Emmanuel Macron, who said it was an attack on freedom of speech backed by Islamic terrorism.
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