LIVE – Decapitated professor: He was “assassinated because he taught freedom...

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• A professor was beheaded near a college on Friday, late afternoon in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines). The facts took place around 5 p.m., according to a police source. Members of the city’s anti-crime brigade (BAC) were called in for a suspicious individual prowling near the Bois d’Aulne college, according to this source. On the spot, they discovered the victim and, 200 meters further on in Eragny-sur-Oise (Val-d’Oise), tried to stop a man armed with a knife which threatened them and fired on him.

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• The victim, a history and geography teacher at the Bois d’Aulne college, had recently shown his students caricatures of Muhammad during a course on freedom of expression, according to a police source. The teacher had been threatened by parents and even lodged a complaint with the police station.

• The alleged assailant, who died of his injuries, is believed to be a Russian national of Muslim faith. Born in 2002 in Moscow, he shouted “Allah Akbar” before being shot. The investigation was entrusted to the Antiterrorist Sub-Directorate (Sdat) of the judicial police and to the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).

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• Emmanuel Macron, who went there, described the attack as“Characterized Islamist terrorist attack”, three weeks after the attack in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo. “They will not pass. Obscurantism will not win ”, hammered, moved, the Head of State.