Emmanuel Macron during his speech in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) after the beheading of a teacher, October 16, 2020. -
AFP
Emmanuel Macron went to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), Friday evening, after the beheading of a teacher.
The history and geography teacher from the Bois de l'Aulne college was said to have been killed by an 18-year-old assailant because he had shown the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that appeared in
Charlie Hebdo
to his students.
In front of the school, the President of the Republic made a short speech in which he indicated that "our compatriot was the victim of a characterized Islamist terrorist attack".
The Head of State affirmed that "obscurantism and the violence which accompanies it will not win" and promised: "We will all unite.
They will not pass.
They will not divide us.
This is what they are looking for and we must all stand together ”.
What Marine Le Pen quickly reacted to on Twitter.
They are already there, even in our schools!
MLP https://t.co/3te9qAzXxZ
- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) October 16, 2020
Protect and defend teachers
Before this speech, Emmanuel Macron spoke for nearly an hour with the teachers of the Bois d'Aulne college, where the victim taught.
"One of our fellow citizens was assassinated today because he was teaching, because he advocated freedom of expression, the freedom to believe and not to believe, to students," he added. .
The President of the Republic also greeted "all the teachers of France", affirming "that we are with them, that the whole Nation will be there, by their side, today and tomorrow, to protect and defend them, allow them to do their job which is the most beautiful there is: to make free citizens ”.
"This terrorist wanted to bring down the Republic in its values"
“There is no coincidence that this evening, it is a teacher that this terrorist killed, because he wanted to bring down the Republic in its values, the Enlightenment, the possibility of making our children, d 'wherever they come from, whether they believe or not, whatever their religion, to make them free citizens.
The murder suspect was killed by police in the nearby town of Eragny (Val-d'Oise).
The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) announced to AFP that it immediately seized the investigation, opened for “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “criminal terrorist association”.
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