“Today I offered to visit Russia this weekend to hold talks with my colleague,” the French minister said on BFM TV.

He expressed the hope that he will have the opportunity to go to Russia on Sunday or Monday.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with French President of France Emmanuel Macron, expressed his condolences in connection with the terrorist attack that took place in the suburbs of Paris.

On October 16, near the French capital, a young man beheaded the teacher, the attacker was shot dead by the police.

Emmanuel Macron called the murder a terrorist attack.