French anti-terror police are investigating after a man beheaded a teacher after apparently showing their students controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad..Responding police shot the attacker dead a short distance from the school in a Paris suburb about 5 p.m. local time..Witnesses heard the attacker shout “Allahu Akbar”, or God is greater, Reuters said..When police shouted at him to give himself up, he is said to have threatened them. The officers shot him and he died a short time later, said the BBC..Le Parisien newspaper said the victim was “horribly mutilated” and the attacker was the parent of a student, but this has not been confirmed by police..Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer tweeted the killing of a teacher was an attack on the French Republic, the BBC reported.. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .He said his thoughts were with the victim and his family, and unity and firmness were the only responses to “Islamist terrorism”..In the country’s parliament, deputies stood up to honour the dead man and condemn the “atrocious terror attack”..President Emmanuel Macron visited the neighbourhood later on Friday and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, travelling to Morocco, is returning urgently to Paris, said the BBC..The victim, history and geography teacher, had been talking in class about freedom of expression in connection with the Muhammad cartoons..The cartoons were published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was subjected to a deadly terrorist attack in 2015..A trial is under way in Paris of alleged accomplices in that attack in which 12 people were killed..In February 2006, the Western Standard and the Jewish Free Press reprinted the cartoons, causing world-wide controversy..Numerous complaints where filed against the Western Standard but none of them went anywhere..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
French anti-terror police are investigating after a man beheaded a teacher after apparently showing their students controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad..Responding police shot the attacker dead a short distance from the school in a Paris suburb about 5 p.m. local time..Witnesses heard the attacker shout “Allahu Akbar”, or God is greater, Reuters said..When police shouted at him to give himself up, he is said to have threatened them. The officers shot him and he died a short time later, said the BBC..Le Parisien newspaper said the victim was “horribly mutilated” and the attacker was the parent of a student, but this has not been confirmed by police..Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer tweeted the killing of a teacher was an attack on the French Republic, the BBC reported.. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .He said his thoughts were with the victim and his family, and unity and firmness were the only responses to “Islamist terrorism”..In the country’s parliament, deputies stood up to honour the dead man and condemn the “atrocious terror attack”..President Emmanuel Macron visited the neighbourhood later on Friday and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, travelling to Morocco, is returning urgently to Paris, said the BBC..The victim, history and geography teacher, had been talking in class about freedom of expression in connection with the Muhammad cartoons..The cartoons were published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was subjected to a deadly terrorist attack in 2015..A trial is under way in Paris of alleged accomplices in that attack in which 12 people were killed..In February 2006, the Western Standard and the Jewish Free Press reprinted the cartoons, causing world-wide controversy..Numerous complaints where filed against the Western Standard but none of them went anywhere..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
