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		</div><p>Terror has struck France for the second time in three weeks after the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a Paris suburb.</p>
<p>The suspected attacker was shot and killed by police after the teacher died in the street in Conflans-Saint-Honorine.</p>
<p>French president Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” and urged the nation to stand united against extremism.</p>
<p>Authorities said the teacher had discussed caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with his class.</p>
<p>The French anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation for murder with a suspected terrorist motive.</p>
<p>Four people, one a minor, were detained hours later, the office of anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said. Police typically fan out to find family and friends of potential suspects in terror cases.</p>
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<p>Mr Macron visited the school where the teacher worked in Conflans-Saint-Honorine and met with staff.</p>
<p>An Associated Press reporter saw three ambulances at the scene, and heavily armed police surrounding the area and police vans lining nearby streets.</p>
<p>Mr Macron said: “One of our compatriots was murdered today because he taught … the freedom of expression, the freedom to believe or not believe.”</p>
<p>He said the attack should not divide France because that’s what the extremists want. “We must stand all together as citizens,” he said.</p>
<p>The incident came as Mr Macron’s government works on a bill to address Islamist radicals who authorities claim are creating a parallel society outside the values of the French Republic.</p>
<p>France has the largest Muslim population in western Europe with up to five million members, and Islam is the country’s number two religion.</p>
<p>A police official said the suspect, who was armed with a knife and an airsoft gun – which fires plastic pellets – was shot dead about 600 yards from where the male teacher was killed after he failed to respond to orders to put down his arms, and acted in a threatening manner.</p>
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<p>The teacher had received threats after opening a discussion “for a debate” about the caricatures about 10 days ago, the police official told The Associated Press.</p>
<p>The parent of a student had filed a complaint against the teacher, another police official said, adding that the suspected killer did not have a child at the school.</p>
<p>An ID card was found at the scene but police were verifying the identity. French media reported that the suspect was an 18-year-old Chechen, born in Moscow. That information could not be immediately confirmed.</p>
<p>France has seen occasional violence involving its Chechen community in recent months – in the Dijon region, the Mediterranean city of Nice, and the western town of Saint-Dizier – believed to be linked to local criminal activity.</p>
<p>It was not known what link, if any, the attacker might have with the teacher or whether he had accomplices.</p>
<p>The attack is second terrorism-related incident since the opening of an ongoing trial for the January 2015 newsroom massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had published caricatures of the prophet of Islam.</p>
<p>As the trial started, the paper republished caricatures of the prophet to underscore the right of freedom of expression.</p>
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<p>Soon afterwards, a young man from Pakistan was arrested after stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the newspaper’s former offices. They did not suffer life-threatening injuries.</p>
<p>The 18-year-old told police he was upset about the publication of the caricatures.</p>
<p>In a video posted recently on social media, a man describing himself as a father at the school said the teacher who was slain had recently shown an offensive image of a man and told students it was “the prophet of the Muslims”.</p>
<p>Before showing the images, the teacher asked Muslim children to leave the room because he planned to show something shocking, the man said.</p>
<p>“What was the message he wanted to send these children? Why does a history teacher behave this way in front of 13-year-olds?” the man asked.</p>
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