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France's beheading of a history teacher who is suspected of shooting the police, the young dead was a Chechen man
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| An 18-year-old Chechen man suspected of beheading a teacher while discussing a picture of France Mohammed in class has been shot dead by police.-PTI |
Police suspect an 18-year-old Chechen man who was shot by police after the horrific beheading of a history teacher in the Paris attacks on Friday.
Authorities investigating the brutal murder of the man in Conflance-Sante-Honorin have already arrested nine suspects, including grandparents, parents and the attacker's 17-year-old brother, according to France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office.
Authorities said the teacher was referring students to his class by discussing the caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in detail.
Chechnya North is a predominantly Muslim Russian republic. Two wars in the 1990s triggered a wave of emigration, with many Chechens heading for Western Europe.
France has witnessed various incidents and violence involving its Chechen community in recent months, believed to be linked to local criminal activity and score-meetings.
A police official said the suspect in Friday's attack was beheaded and shot about 600 meters (yards) from where he was killed. He was armed with a knife and a shotgun, which fired plastic shots and fired after police failed to respond to a firearms order. And shot him.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the school on Friday night, calling the incident an Islamist terrorist attack. He called on the nation to remain united against extremism. "One of our countrymen was killed today because he taught ... freedom of expression, freedom of belief or non-belief," Macron said.
French anti-terrorism authorities have launched an investigation into the killings with legal suspected terrorist motives, the office said.
This is the second time in three weeks that a caricature of the Prophet has clashed in France. Last month, a young Pakistani man was arrested for stabbing two men outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The weekly was the target of a deadly newsroom attack in 2015, and after it re-published the Prophet's caricatures earlier this month, a trial involving that attack began and your emphasis on the right to freedom of information began.
Friday's terrorist attack came when the Macron government drafted a bill to address Islamic radicals whose officials claim a parallel society has been formed outside the values of the French Republic.
France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe with 500 million members, and Islam is the country's second largest religion.
A police official told The Associated Press that the teacher had been threatened about ten days after the debate over the screenplay began. Another police official said a student's guardian had lodged a complaint against the teacher
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