19+ Top France Teacher Attack Scene. He had fired shots at police and tried to stab them as they closed in on him. The teacher killed in a suburb of paris in an islamist terror attack has been named as samuel paty, sky news has confirmed. Mr paty, 47, was assassinated, france's president has the suspected attacker was shot dead about 600 metres from the scene, according to the ap news agency.
19+ Top France Teacher Attack Scene Another source close to the police also said the victim had been decapitated in the attack, but this has not been confirmed.
A woman was beheaded in an attack by a criminal, armed with a knife, in france's nice, the city's mayor christian estrosi said on bfm tv. Video filmed at the scene also showed an injured person being carried away on a stretcher. He said the attack should not divide france because that is what the extremists want. Le parisien newspaper quoted the mayor of the teacher's hometown of vaumoise as saying he france beefs up security for jewish holiday in wake of paris knife attack.
France's hollande visits scene of 'abominable' attack. Just last month, seven people were detained in connection with a knife attack outside charlie. Nice's mayor, christian estrosi, who described the attack in his city as terrorism, said on twitter it had happened in or near notre dame church and was similar to the beheading of french teacher samuel. The teacher had discussed caricatures of islam's prophet muhammad with his class, authorities said.
On october 16, samuel paty, a history and geography teacher, was decapitated after exhibiting charlie hebdo's caricatures of the prophet muhammad. Mr paty, 47, was assassinated, france's president has the suspected attacker was shot dead about 600 metres from the scene, according to the ap news agency. The teacher was struck down because he taught, because he taught the liberty of expression, the liberty to believe and not believe, the french president said in a brief televised address. People across france took to the streets on sunday to march in tribute to samuel paty, who was murdered after showing his students caricatures of mohammad.