Teacher beheaded in France by alleged islamist sympathiser

Nine people have been captured by the French police after an alleged Islamist sympathiser beheaded a school teacher on the road of a Paris suburb on Friday, police sources stated.

Police officials were attempting to ascertain whether the attacker, who was shot dead by police, had enacted solely or had any accomplices. French media announced that he was an 18-year-old of Chechen origin.

Observers heard the attacker scream “Allahu Akbar” or “God is Greatest”, a police source told. His victim, a history teacher, had a beginning of this month explicated his students' sketches of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics class on freedom of expression.

President Emmanuel Macron declared this occurrence Islamist terrorism. Four relatives of the accuser, including a minor, were arrested in the immediate hours after the brutal attack in the middle-class suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the police sources stated.

Five more were arrested late night, with two parents of students at the College du Bois d’Aulne where the teacher was working.

Muslim leaders criticised the crime, which several public figures recognised it as an intrusion on the essence of French statehood and its importance of secularism, liberty of worship and independence of expression. Tareq Oubrou, the imam of a Bordeaux mosque, doubted the killing marked a clash of cultures.

“It is not any culture that executes an innocent individual, it is brutality,” Oubrou told France Inter, stating that the litany of deadly attacks by Islamist militants or their supporters was destroying for France’s Muslim community.

“Every day that moves without event we give thanks,” he replied. “We are between hammer and anvil. It attacks the Republic, society, peace and the very essence of religion, which is about togetherness.”