Very moved and in the gravity of his voice, the president went to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) a few hours after a man killed a professor in the city by beheading him.
A savage murder that Emmanuel Macron called a "characterized Islamist terrorist attack" and assured teachers that the nation will stand together with them against "obscurantism", to "protect and defend them".
A message for teachers
“Obscurantism and violence will not win.
They will not divide us.
This is what they are looking for and we must all stand together ", hammered the Head of State, affirming that" the whole nation "will be alongside teachers" today and tomorrow to protect them and defend them ”.
The 18-year-old killer of Chechen origin was not known to the anti-terrorism services.