The Anti-Terrorism Prosecution Office in France is investigating a crime linked to a terrorist act
The Public Prosecutor for Combating Terrorism in France announced this evening that it has opened an investigation following the beheading of a man fifty kilometers northwest of Paris.
The Public Prosecution said that the investigation into the attack, which took place in the afternoon near a school, had been opened for "a crime linked to a terrorist act" and a "terrorist criminal group."
The Criminal Department of the Conflans-Saint-Honorine District Police had received a call to pursue a suspect wandering around an educational institution, prosecutors said.
Police officers on the scene found the victim, about two hundred meters away, in an Iranian neighborhood, and tried to stop a man carrying a white weapon and threatening them, then they shot him, causing serious injuries.
The place was cordoned off, and the demining department personnel were brought in on suspicion of an explosive belt.
French police later said that the attacker died of his wounds.
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