Police officers gather outside a high school after a history teacher was beheaded in Conflans St Honorine on Friday.
French anti-terror prosecutors said they were treating the assault as “a murder linked to a terrorist organisation” and related to a “criminal association with terrorists”.The attack happened on the outskirts of Paris at around 5.00 pm near a school in Conflans St Honorine, a northwestern suburb located some 30km from the centre of the French capital.
Last month, charges were brought against a 25-year old Pakistani man who wounded two people with a meat cleaver to avenge the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed by the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The trial has sparked protests across France, with thousands of demonstrators rallying against Charlie Hebdo and the French government.