Teacher decapitated in France after showing Mohammed cartoons
An assailant on Friday decapitated a history teacher in France who had recently shown cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class, police said.
The attacker, whose identity has not been established, was shot by police as they tried to arrest him and later died of his injuries, they said.
The attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Greater") as police confronted him, a cry often heard in jihadist attacks, a police source said.
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".
French President Emmanuel Macron was to visit the scene of the attack later Friday, his office said.
The attack happened on the outskirts of Paris at around 5pm (1500 GMT) near a school in Conflans Saint-Honorine, a northwestern suburb located some 30 kilometres from the centre of the French capital.
According to a police source, the victim was a history teacher at a local middle school who recently discussed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class.
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