French politicians in shock after beheading a college professor

This October 16, a college professor, who had recently shown his students caricatures of Mohammed in progress, was beheaded in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Politicians, from LFI to RN via LREM or LR, immediately reacted.

On the left as on the right, the French political class is in shock after the beheading of a teacher, which occurred at the end of October 16 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines). The alleged attacker was shot dead by the police in the neighboring town of Eragny-sur-Oise (Val-d’Oise).

According to a police source quoted by AFP, the victim, a history teacher at the Bois-d’Aulne college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, had recently shown his students caricatures of Mohammed in progress. The national antiterrorist prosecution took up the investigation, opened for “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “criminal terrorist association”.

Emmanuel Macron goes to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the evening. The President of the Republic has previously gone through the crisis unit set up at the Ministry of the Interior, where he was joined by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, said Matignon.

“It is the Republic which is under attack”, declared Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer.

At the National Assembly, the deputies rose at the beginning of the evening to salute the memory of the victim that the chairman of the meeting Hugues Renson (LREM) has the quality of “abominable attack”.

With RT France, the mayor of Eragny-sur-Oise, Thibault Humbert, expressed his “indignation”, his “consternation” and his “revolt”.

For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the murderer “smears his religion […] inflicts hell on us all ”

On the left, the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denounced a “despicable crime”. “In fact the murderer takes himself for the god he claims to be. He dirties his religion. And he is inflicting hell on all of us having to live with murderers of his kind, ”he commented.

His rebellious colleague in the Assembly, Alexis Corbière, spoke out against “murderous religious fanaticism” and called on the French not to let “the hatred and violence of the madmen of God tear” the country.

Also on the left side of the political spectrum, MEP Boris Vallaud expressed his “immense emotion” and “revolt” in the face of a “barbaric terrorist act”, while MEP from the European Socialist Party Raphaël Glucksmann denounced “the horror without limit of jihadist fanaticism ”.

Aurore Bergé: “Islamist separatism must be fought relentlessly”

At the center of the political spectrum, Aurore Bergé, LREM deputy for Yvelines, tweeted: “It’s not ‘a stroke of madness’. Islamist terrorism kills. Islamist separatism must be fought relentlessly, without ever weakening. The penal response must be maximum ”.

The former Minister of the Interior and president of the LREM group in the Assembly, Christophe Castaner, paid tribute to “the black hussars of the Republic, them who, every day, transmit their values”.

Eric Ciotti calls for an end to the “half-measure”

On the right, the president of the Ile-de-France region (Les Républicains) Valérie Pécresse declared on Twitter: “Faced with those who want to destroy us, destroy the free speech of our teachers, we must be relentless and stop looking elsewhere ! “

The deputy of the same party Eric Ciotti hammered that we were “at war” against Islamism. Therefore, the elected LR called to put an end to “words”, “half-measures” and “cowardice”.

Marine Le Pen: “Islamism is waging war on us”

The president of the National Rally (RN) Marine Le Pen, tweeted in reaction to the attack: “A professor beheaded for presenting the Charlie Hebdo cartoons: we are, in France, at this level of unbearable barbarism.” He added: “Islamism is waging a war on us: it is by force that we must drive it out of our country”. “

“The attack is linked to the cartoons of Muhammad: we must not give up a millimeter of word, gesture, action, concession, repression to Islamic terrorism!”, For his part commented deputy RN Gilbert Collard.