Teacher beheaded in France, suspected killer shot dead.

A history teacher in France was beheaded over a discussion with students on caricatures of Prophet Muhammad

A middle school history teacher in France, who had recently shown students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad was beheaded outside his on Friday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack.”

The man suspected of the beheading was an 18-year-old born in Moscow and originating from Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, a judicial source said on Saturday. The assailant was shot by police as they tried to arrest him and but died due his injuries. A police source said that witnesses had heard the attackers shout “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest”.

At around 5:00p.m, the attack took place in the street in front of the middle school where the victim worked, in the northwestern suburbs of Conflans Sainte-Honorine, 30kilometers from the French capital. The area is a middle class neighborhood with many residents who commute to work in Paris.

Five more people have been detained over the murder on Friday outside Paris, including parents of the child at the school where the teacher was working, bringing to nine the total number currently under arrest, according to a source. The other new people detained for questioning are members of the suspect’s social circle but not family members.

A parent of a pupil at the school said the teacher might have stirred “controversy” by asking Muslim pupils to leave the room before showing the cartoons. “The teacher ‘simply said to the Muslim children: ‘leave, I don’t want it to hurt your feelings.’ That’s what my son told me,” the parent said.

The teacher had received threats after a discussion “for debate” about the caricatures about few days ago, the police official told The Associated Press. The parents of student had filed a complaint against the middle-school teacher, according to another police official.

The French anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation into Friday’s incident. Also the assault is being treated as “a murder linked to a terrorist organization” and related to a “criminal association with terrorists” they stated.

“One of our fellow citizens was assassinated today because he was teaching, he was teaching pupils about freedom of expression,” French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters at the scene of the attack.