The man who beheaded, Samuel Paty, in a street in France waited outside the school and asked the students to identify his target, confirmed by the anti-terrorism officials earlier yesterday. Later on so, the murder also posted pictures of dead victim Samuel Paty, 47, on social media, apparently who had shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.

The attack took place on Friday near the College du Bois d’Aulne, where Mr. Paty taught, in the town of Conflans Sainte Honorine, north-west of Central Paris. The murder then fired at the police with an airgun before being shot dead. The number of arrests has risen to 10 since Saturday, with police investigating possible links to Islamic extremism. 

President of France, Emmanuel Macron, said:

“the attack bore all the hallmarks of an Islamist terrorist attack, and the teaching had been murdered because he taught freedom of expression.”

Jean-François Ricard, the anti-terrorism state prosecutor, stated details of the attack and investigation. The suspect was identified as “Abdoulakh A” an 18-year-old, born in Moscow of Chechen origin. The suspect came to France with a refugee status as a boy and was unknown to the anti-terrorism squad. 

The boy showed up at Paty’s school and asked the students to point the teacher out, he later then followed Samuel on foot after school, inflicted multiple wounds to the head with a knife, and then beheaded the victim. 

Witnesses are said to have heard the boy shout, “Allahu Akbar” when he attacked the victim. 

Mr. Paty, a history and geography teacher, advised Muslim students to look away if they thought they might be offended. 

A parent of one of the students reacted angrily to the incident, accusing Mr. Paty of showing naked pictures of the Prophet Muhammad. The father lodged a formal complaint and produced videos demonstrating the anger at Mr. Paty’s actions and calling on people to go to the school to protest. 

Muslim leaders in France also condemned the attack.

“A civilization does not kill an innocent person, barbarism does,”

Tareq Oubrou, imam of a mosque in Bordeaux, told France Inter. 

The Strasbourg-based Assembly of Chechens in Europe said in a statement:

“Like all French people, our community is horrified by this incident.”

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