They won’t divide us.”The victim was identified as a high school history and geography teacher. Parents in the area had recently complained that a local teacher had shown students caricatures of the prophet Muhammad as part of a lesson on freedom of expression, France’s BFM television reported. As authorities worked to establish a more complete picture, the potential motive of seeking revenge for the Muhammad cartoons led investigators to quickly consider the case a terrorist attack, Le Monde reported. The two attackers in the 2015 shooting were recorded saying that they had avenged the prophet as they fled the scene. Last month, Charlie Hebdo’s editors commemorated the beginning of the trial by publishing new cartoons of Muhammad.

Source: Washington Post October 16, 2020 18:33 UTC