Suspect in Teacher’s Beheading in France Was Teenager of Chechen Origin

Suspect in Teacher’s Beheading in France Was Teenager of Chechen Origin
Police officers secure the area near the scene of a stabbing attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France on Oct. 16, 2020. Charles Platiau/Reuters
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CONFLANS-SAINTE-HONORINE—French police were questioning nine people in custody on Saturday after a suspected Islamist sympathiser beheaded a school teacher in broad daylight on the street in a Paris suburb, police sources said.

Police shot the attacker dead minutes after he murdered 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty on Friday. The killing shocked the country and carried echoes of an attack five years ago on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.