{"id":17716,"date":"2020-10-16T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=17716"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:29:10","slug":"terror-inquiry-after-teacher-beheaded-near-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2020\/10\/16\/terror-inquiry-after-teacher-beheaded-near-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror inquiry after teacher beheaded near Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A teacher has been beheaded in a suburb north-west of the French capital Paris, with the attacker shot dead by police.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The victim in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine is said to have shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The anti-terrorism prosecutor is to lead the investigation into the attack which occurred at about 17:00 local time (15:00 GMT) near a school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer tweeted that the killing of a teacher was an attack on the French Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He said his thoughts were with the victim and his family, and unity and firmness were the only responses to “Islamist terrorism”.<\/p>\n

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In the National Assembly in Paris, France’s parliament, deputies stood up to honour the dead man and condemn the “atrocious terror attack”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Emmanuel Macron is to visit Conflans-Sainte-Honorine later on Friday evening and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, travelling to Morocco, is returning urgently to Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What do we know of the attack?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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A man wielding a large knife is reported to have attacked the teacher in a street, cutting off his head. The attacker then ran off, but local police alerted by the public were quickly at the scene in the nearby area of \u00c9ragny.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When they shouted at him to give himself up, he is said to have threatened them. The officers shot him and he died a short time after.<\/p>\n

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The scene is now sealed off, as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a tweet (in French),\u00a0police urged members of the public to avoid the area.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Le Monde newspaper<\/a>, the victim, a teacher of history and geography, had been talking in class about freedom of expression in connection with the Muhammad cartoons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The cartoons were published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was subjected to a deadly attack in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A trial is under way in Paris of alleged accomplices in that attack in which 12 people were killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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