A French judicial source said, on Saturday, that the 18-year-old suspect in the French teacher beheading was of Chechen origin and was born in Moscow, adding that five more people were detained in connection with the attack.
The total number of people arrested in the framework of this beheading attack is nine people, according to the AFP.
The source explained that among the last five detainees, the parents of a student at the Conflans Saint-Honorine School, where the teacher was working.
The Public Prosecutor for Combating Terrorism in France announced Friday that it had opened an investigation following the beheading of a history professor at Conflans Saint-Honorine.
The Public Prosecution said that the investigation into the events that took place around 5 pm near a school was opened on charges of committing a "crime linked to a terrorist act" and a "terrorist criminal group."
Police officers in the criminal department in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, 50 km northwest of Paris, received a call to pursue a suspect wandering around an educational institution, according to the prosecution.
The place was cordoned off and another department personnel was brought in on suspicion of an explosive belt, and after the incident, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who was in Morocco, decided to return immediately to Paris.
The French police explained that the man who was attacked was a history professor who recently showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression.
On his part, French President Emmanuel Macron said that "The citizen was killed today because he was a teacher and because he taught the students' freedom of expression.”
“The whole country stands with the teachers. The terrorists will not pide France... obscurantism will not win," Macron added, near the school where the teacher was killed.
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