Attack in France: one of those arrested has a stepsister who joined the Islamic State in 2014

• France: Police shoot down a suspected Islamist who had beheaded a teacher for teaching Muhammad cartoons in class

• Attack. Samuel Paty, the professor beheaded in France for teaching Muhammad cartoons in class

The anti

terrorist prosecutor

has indicated today at a press conference that the attacker who killed a teacher at the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine school had shot at the police at the time of being neutralized and that the agents shot dead.

Ricard has denied that the teacher had asked the Muslim students to identify themselves, as the father of a student reportedly indicated, during his presentation on freedom of expression in which he used two cartoons of Muhammad.

In addition, according to the prosecutor, the 18-year-old attacker would have spent Friday afternoon in front of the school asking who the teacher was who had shown the drawings and that the educational center had already received several threats.

The prosecutor has noted that

and she is still being sought.

The attacker had a valid residence permit, the prosecutor said.

When he was neutralized,

had a residence permit issued on March 4 and validated until March 2030. He lived in Evreux and had refugee status.

In addition, several weapons were seized, including a dagger-type knife, a pistol and five cartridges.

Mobilization

For their part,

in order to pay tribute to the beheaded professor, identified by Le Monde as Samuel Paty.

Nine people have been arrested in France in recent hours, France-Presse reported.

The crime has shocked France.

The attacker was 18 years old, he was born in Russia but was Chechen and had no criminal record, although he had committed a minor crime.

The security services had also not registered a possible radicalization of the suspect.

So far, four relatives of the aggressor (his parents, his grandfather and his minor brother) and five other people around him have been arrested

.

Among them is the father of a student from the institute where the victim worked with whom he had an argument after showing the Muhammad cartoons in a class focused on freedom of expression.

After the crime, the national antiterrorist prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "murder linked to a terrorist company" and "terrorist criminal association".

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