A criminal who beheaded a teacher near Paris could have been born in Moscow. BFMTV reported.
According to the TV channel, the killer is of Chechen origin, he is 18 years old.
There is no official confirmation of this. The Russian embassy in France is checking this information. The diplomats told RIA Novosti that local authorities have not yet made inquiries about the alleged offender.
At the scene of the state of emergency came the President of France Emmanuel Macron, as well as the ministers of the interior, national education and citizenship.
Earlier it was reported that the culprit was a 48-year-old native of Algeria. According to media reports, he could be the parent of one of the students and was outraged that the teacher showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during the freedom of speech lesson. The criminal was shot dead by the police.
