⁍ Police shot dead the 18-year-old attacker, who was born in Russia, minutes after he murdered 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty.
⁍ A photograph of the teacher’s body, accompanied by a message claiming responsibility posted on Twitter, was discovered on the assailant’s phone.
⁍ The post was removed swiftly by Twitter, which said it had suspended the account because it violated the company’s policy.
– “In the name of Allah the most gracious, the most merciful, … to (President Emmanuel) Macron, leader of the infidels, I have executed one of your hell-hounds who dared to belittle (Prophet) Mohammad.” So reads a now-deleted tweet claiming responsibility for Friday’s beheading of a French teacher outside his school in a Paris suburb. The 18-year-old attacker, who was shot dead by police minutes after killing 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty, had approached students in the street and asked them to point out Paty’s body, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said Saturday, per Reuters. A photograph of the teacher’s body was found on the attacker’s phone, found near his body. Ricard said the Twitter account belonged to the attacker. The post was removed swiftly by Twitter, which said it had suspended the account because it violated the company’s policy. Ricard quoted the message as saying: “In the name of Allah the most gracious, the most merciful, … to (President Emmanuel) Macron, leader of the infidels, I have executed one of your hell-hounds who dared to belittle (Prophet) Mohammad.” Earlier this month Paty had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a class on freedom of expression, angering a number of Muslim parents. Muslims believe that any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous. In the days after the lesson, the attacker’s father recorded videos in which urged others to “join forces and say ‘stop, don’t touch our kids.'”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/france-security/teenager-asked-pupils-to-identify-french-teacher-before-beheading-him-idUSKBN2720BD