Assailant killed by Police ; France claims it is a ‘terrorist attack’
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Paris (France) – A history teacher who showed caricatures of Prophet Mohammed in class was on 16th October decapitated and his assailant shot dead by French Police as they tried to arrest him, Police and prosecutors said.
French anti-terror prosecutors said they were investigating the assault which took olace on the outskirts of Paris at around 5 p.m. near a school in a western suburb of the French capital.
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Though the Police did not divulge the identity of the attacker, it is suspected that he was an 18-year-old religious fanatic. He was born in Moscow in a Chechnya Muslim family.
When 47-year-old teacher Samuel was teaching the students the topic of freedom of expressions, only 12 to 14 students were present in the class. When he displayed the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad, some of the students became displeased and they reported to the Police; however, an 18-year-old student among them attacked Samuel and killed him.
Prosecutors said they were treating the incident as ‘a murder linked to a terrorist organisation’. Police on 16th October arrived at the scene after receiving a call about suspicious individual loitering near the school, a Police source said. There they found the dead man and nearby sighted the suspect armed with a knife-like weapon who threatened them as they tried to arrest him. They opened fire and injured him severely, the source said. He later died of his injuries.
President Macron condemns beheading
French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called a ‘terrorist attack’. As quoted by Sputnik, Macron said that the compatriot was murdered for teaching children freedom of speech and freedom of expression. France Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer also criticised the incident and called it an ‘attack on France’.
Strict action initiated
against religious fanatics
French Police have cracked down on jihadis after the teacher was beheaded. Investigations have been launched at more than 80 places and 51 Islamic organisations are being considered for impositing a ban on them. These include some large organisations. Not only this, but 213 foreigners will also be deported from France. About 150 of them are currently in French prisons. They are accused of pursuing Islamic fundamentalism.
Four members of the fanatic’s family have been arrested so far, as well as his father, who wrote against the teacher on social media. The name of the fanatic who beheaded the teacher is ‘Abdullakh Anjorokh’. He came to France as a refugee when he was 6 years old. (Considering how fanatic the refugees are and the violence they inflict in the country which gives them shelter, India should never entertain such refugees ! Also, the infiltrating Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims should also be expelled as soon as possible ! – Editor)
In reply, a large-scale exhibition of
cartoons on Government buildings
The cartoons, published earlier by Charlie Hebdo magazine, are now being displayed on large screens on the exterior walls of Government buildings in Paris, as in reply to the incident. It seeks to convey that ‘freedom of expression is upheld in France’. A large posse of Policemen was deployed at the time.