A few hours after the death of a teacher from a college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the Yvelines, attacked with a knife and beheaded by a young man of 18, Emmanuel Macron went there on Friday evening.
In a short speech, he declared that the professor is the victim of a "marked Islamist terrorist attack".
The professor savagely killed Friday is the victim of a "characterized Islamist terrorist attack", declared Emmanuel Macron.
A few hours after the terrorist attack that occurred late Friday afternoon in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the Yvelines, the head of state, went there.
During his speech, he insisted that "we will unite. They will not pass. The obscurantism and the violence which accompanies it will not win".
At around 5 p.m. on Friday, a 47-year-old teacher was beheaded in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, and his alleged attacker was killed by the police, in the neighboring town of Eragny, in Val-d'Oise.
The attack comes three weeks after the chopper attack perpetrated by a young Pakistani near the former
Charlie Hebdo
premises
in Paris.
According to a police source, the victim, a history and geography teacher at a college in Conflans Sainte-Honorine, had recently shown his students caricatures of Muhammad during a course on press freedom.
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