Nine people are being questioned by the French authorities after a school teacher was beheaded in broad daylight on the street in a Paris suburb.
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Media reports said a Chechen Muslim shouting 'Allah O Akbar' beheaded the history teacher who had recently given a class on secularism and the controversy surrounding the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
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The gruesome crime happened near a middle school in the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. The suspect was later shot dead by the police in adjoining town of Eragny.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, who later visited the school where the teacher worked, termed the beheading as an 'Islamic terrorist attack.
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Macron said, "One of our compatriots was murdered today because he taught. The freedom of expression, the freedom to believe or not believe."
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"Terrorists will not divide France, obscurantism will not prevail," he added.
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Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Twitter, "Our unity and our resolve are the only responses faced with the monstrosity of Islamist terrorism."
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The incident came barely a month after a 25-year-old Pakistani man attacked two people with a meat cleaver over the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
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