BREAKING NOW: France attack: Teacher killed in gruesome assault near Paris, terror investigation launched
A police source said that witnesses had heard the attacker shout “Allah Akbar”, or “God is Great," but police have not verified this account, according to reports. Prosecutors said they were treating the attack as "a murder linked to a terrorist organization."
France's interior minister Gerald Darmanin, who had been traveling to Morocco, is returning to France as a matter of urgency. Initial reports stated that the teacher had been beheaded, but subsequent reports have said that the attacker instead slit the teacher's throat. Police have yet to verify the state of the victim. The attack is another in a series in Paris connected to issues of the Islamic faith.
Late last month, a man who emigrated to France from Pakistan used a meat cleaver to attack and wound two people outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
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