French prosecutor says murdered teacher had been target of threatsIssued on: 17/10/2020 - 14:48 Modified: 17/10/2020 - 14:51
France's anti-terror prosecutor has confirmed that the suspect in Friday's gruesome beheading of a middle school teacher was a Chechen teenager and that the school had received threats prior to the attack.
Police shot the suspect dead minutes after 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty was brutally murdered in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in what President Emmanuel Macron described as an "Islamist terrorist attack".
French police investigating the teacher's killing were questioning nine people in custody on Saturday, including the suspect's grandfather, parents and 17-year-old brother. ...
On Saturday, parents and teachers paid tribute to the murdered teacher, laying white roses outside the school and holding up placards saying "I am a teacher — Freedom of Speech". ...
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