Teacher decapitated near Paris school after talk on Prophet Muhammad cartoons – witnesses had heard the attacker shout ‘Allahu Akbar’, or ‘God is Great’, Friday morning

The teacher had recently opened up a discussion with students on freedom of expression and caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad before he was beheaded

Newspaper Le Parisien that the attacker who confronted the victim with a kitchen knife was a parent of a student

Suspect was spotted by a police patrol while carrying a knife a short distance from the scene of the attack

Yet unidentified killer then fled to the nearby town of Eragny-sur-Oise, around two miles away, where he refused to surrender

‘He was waving a gun by this time and further threatened officers,’ when he was reportedly shot dead by police

A demented gunman has been shot dead by French police, minutes after reportedly slitting a history teacher’s throat near a school in a suburb of the capital, Paris.
France’s anti-terror prosecutor said it was investigating the attack, which took place in the north-west neighborhood of Conflans Sainte-Honorine, around 25 miles from the city center.
The teacher had recently opened up a discussion with students on freedom of expression and caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad before he was beheaded, authorities said.

Paris police shoot dead man who ‘decapitated school teacher in the street’

A police source said that witnesses had heard the suspect shout ‘Allahu Akbar’, or ‘God is Great’.
French newspaper Le Parisien reports that the killer who confronted the victim with a kitchen knife was a parent of a student.
The suspect was spotted by a police patrol while carrying a knife a short distance from the scene of the attack.

An investigating source said: ‘The body of decapitated man was found at around 5.30 in the afternoon.
‘When police arrived, the person thought to be responsible was still present and threatened them with his weapons,’ law enforcement sources said.
The unidentified killer then fled to the nearby town of Eragny-sur-Oise, around two miles away, where he refused to surrender.
The source added: ‘He was waving a gun by this time and further threatened officers.
‘This is when he was shot dead by police. Around ten shots were heard.’
The victim was identified as a teacher at a nearby middle school.
Le Monde newspaper reported that he taught history and geography.
The paper said he had been “horribly mutilated”.
The killing comes almost a month after two people were attacked with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, police said.

The magazine has been operating in a secret location ever since extremists massacred 12 people in 2015, over the publishing of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.