French police shoot dead suspect who 'beheaded schoolteacher' in Paris

Luke O'Reilly16 October 2020

French police shot dead a man who was suspected to have killed a middle school teacher by slitting his throat in the street in a suburb of Paris.

The teacher had shown pupils in his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, a police official told the Associated Press.

The incident occurred in the town of Eragny, in the Val d'Oise region north west of Paris.

The suspected attacker was spotted by a police patrol while carrying a knife a short distance from the scene of the attack. Officers shot the suspected killer dead, the official continued.

Last month two people were wounded in an attack outside Charlie Hebdo's offices
AP

The French anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into Friday's incident outside the capital.

The teacher had been threatened after opening a discussion "for a debate" about the caricatures, the police official told AP.

France has seen several terror attacks over recent years
AP

France has had several terrorist attacks over the past few years.

Late last month, a man allegedly used a meat cleaver to attack and wound two people outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

That was the spot where Islamist militants gunned down employees of the magazine five years ago in retaliation for the magazine's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad

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