6am news – Assassinated teacher: political reactions after the attack

Absolute horror. A 47-year-old history teacher was beheaded by an assailant shot dead by the police this Friday, October 16 in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, in the Yvelines. The national anti-terrorism prosecution immediately seized the investigation.

The President of the Republic went there in the evening to express his emotion and his indignation. “One of our fellow citizens was murdered for teaching students freedom of expression. Our compatriot was the victim of a characterized Islamist terrorist attack. I want to say this evening to all the teachers of France that we are with them, that the whole Nation will be with them to protect them, “insisted Emmanuel Macron.

Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally, for her part assured that “Islamism is waging a war on us” and that “it is by force that we must drive him out of our country”. She deplored the “unbearable level of barabarie” in France before addressing her thoughts “to the relatives of the victim and to the teaching community”. “Ignoble crime“, indignant the leader of La France insoumsie Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

It is the Republic which is attacked with the despicable assassination of one of its servants

“It is the Republic that is under attack with the ignoble murder of one of his servants “, also assured the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer. The former President of the Republic François Hollande for his part called for” unity “in the face “to barbarism and obscurantism.”

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