Footage of Friday’s intervention, released by the AP, shows a police unit chasing a man suspected of Friday’s murder of teacher Samuel Paty. An eighteen-year-old man was to be armed with a knife and an airsoft rifle. “Lie down … on the ground … it’s balls,” the police said before the attack.
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As the attacker disobeyed the call and continued to threaten his surroundings, the police intervened in the harshest possible way and shot the man with nine shots.
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A Russian of Chechen descent in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine brutally murdered a high school history teacher who had recently talked to students about freedom of speech and showed them cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. He then cut off Paty’s head. The prosecution is investigating the prosecution as a terrorist act.
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NO COMMENT: People in France took to the streets in honor of a murdered teacher
Video: Reuters
On Sunday, a demonstration in honor of Paty’s memory tens of thousands of people attended throughout the country. According to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, the police launched more than eighty investigations on Monday, which mainly concerned “hatred on the Internet”.
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The suspects come from an Islamist background, and according to the DPA, many of them approved of Paty’s murder. Several police officers under investigation have also been detained, others are about to be detained.
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