Nine Arrested After Teacher Beheaded in Paris Suburb
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RABIA ALAWWAL 1, 1442 AH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020 16 Pages Max 37º Min 17º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18260 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait reports 4 deaths, Lebanon protest movement Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt Pakistan’s ‘Gul-dozer’ calls 4 739 new COVID-19 cases 5 marks ‘harrowing’ first year 13 confirms cancer diagnosis 15 time on topsy-turvy journey Nine arrested after teacher beheaded in Paris suburb Teen Chechen assailant shot dead by police after ‘terror attack’ CONFLANS-SAINTE-HONORINE, France: published caricatures of Prophet Muhammad French police have arrested nine people over the (PBUH) that unleashed a wave of anger across the beheading of a teacher near his school in a Paris Islamic world. suburb, a judicial source said yesterday, in what The magazine republished the cartoons in the President Emmanuel Macron labeled an Islamist run-up to the trial in September and last month a terror attack. The source said the killing was carried young Pakistani man wounded two people with a out by an 18-year-old Chechen, who was then shot meat cleaver outside its former offices. Documents and killed by police near the scene in Conflans- found on the beheading suspect showed he was an Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. 18-year-old born in Moscow but from Russia’s Police said the victim was 47-year-old history southern region of Chechnya. teacher Samuel Paty, who had shown his pupils The attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is some cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as greatest”) as police confronted him, a police source part of a class discussion on freedom of expres- said. There had been no previous indication that he sion - a lesson that had prompted complaints from was a potential radical, a source close to the investi- parents. Two of the suspect’s brothers and his gation said. French anti-terror prosecutors said grandparents were initially detained by police for they were treating the assault as “a murder linked to questioning. a terrorist organization”. The judicial source told AFP yesterday that five Police said they were investigating a tweet post- more people had been detained, including the par- ed from an account - since shut down - that showed ents of a child at the school and friends of the sus- a picture of the teacher’s head. It was unclear pect. According to the source, the parents had sig- whether the message, which contained a threat naled their disagreement with the teacher’s decision against Macron described as “the leader of the infi- to show the cartoons. The attack came as a trial is in dels”, had been posted by the attacker, they said. CONFLANS SAINT-HONORINE, France: Adults and children stand in front of flowers displayed at the entrance progress over the Jan 2015 massacre at the offices Visibly moved as he visited the scene, Macron said of a middle school yesterday after a teacher was decapitated. — AFP of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, which had Continued on Page 2 who gave us their vote, who trusted News in brief Ardern wins us to continue leading New Zealand’s recovery,” the 40-year-old told Several charged for mutilating boy cheering supporters. Ardern had by landslide in dubbed the vote “the COVID elec- AMMAN: Jordan’s public prosecutor has tion” and campaigned on her govern- charged several people after a 16-year-old boy ‘COVID polls’ ment’s success in eliminating commu- had his eyes gouged and hands partly sliced off nity transmission of the virus, which in an apparent revenge act that has shocked the WELLINGTON: Prime Minister has caused just 25 deaths in a popula- Arab kingdom. The mutilation was carried out Jacinda Ardern won a landslide victo- tion of five million. Tuesday in Zarqa, after a group kidnapped the ry in New Zealand’s general election The pandemic is one of a string of boy, allegedly in retribution against the boy’s yesterday, leveraging success battling emergencies that tested Ardern’s lead- father, who is in custody accused of murder. COVID-19 into an unprecedented ership during a torrid first term, after Outraged Jordanians have called for those majority she said gave her a mandate she rode to an unexpected victory in responsible to face the death penalty, after for progressive reform. Ardern’s cen- 2017 polls on the back of a wave of security forces said this week they had arrested ter-left Labour Party took 64 seats in support dubbed “Jacinda-mania”. She the main perpetrator along with five other sus- the 120-member parliament with 49 displayed both empathy and decisive pects. King Abdullah II ordered the boy’s trans- percent of the vote, after the youthful action on gun control after a white fer to Amman’s King Hussein Medical Centre, and charismatic leader steered the supremacist gunman killed 51 Muslim while Queen Rania termed the attack “an nation through the upheaval wrought worshippers in the Christchurch unspeakable atrocity in every respect”. — AFP by the global pandemic. mosques attack last year. AUCKLAND: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks after the Labour “Thank you to the many people Continued on Page 2 Party won the general election yesterday. — AFP US sailors help Iran vessel city of Ganja, a dramatic escalation in the conflict by driving out Armenian forces. As the sun rose MANAMA: An American guided-missile Azerbaijan vows over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The over the devastation in Ganja, Mayil Shakhnazarov, destroyer came to the aid of an Iranian flagged early hours attack, which also saw a strike on the 36, said it was impossible to identify some of those vessel in distress in the Arabian Sea, an interna- nearby strategic city of Mingecevir, came hours killed. “What can we say? Our pain is deep. Really tional maritime coalition said Friday. The dhow retaliation for after Azerbaijani forces shelled Stepanakert, the deep,” he told AFP. broke down due to a motor problem and capital of the ethnic Armenian separatist region. The seeming tit-for-tat attacks further under- launched a distress call to the USS Winston S deadly strike The explosions in Ganja levelled a row of houses mine international efforts to calm a resurgence of Churchill on Thursday. The missile destroyer’s and left at least 40 people injured in an attack fighting between Christian Armenians and Muslim “boarding team transited to the dhow via a GANJA, Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev described as “a war crime”. In televised Azerbaijanis and avoid drawing regional powers rigid-hull inflatable boat... and conducted an ini- Aliyev vowed yesterday to take revenge on Armenia remarks, he said his army would “take revenge on Russia and Turkey into a conflict that has killed tial seaworthiness inspection. They provided the after a missile strike killed 12 sleeping people in the the battlefield” and promised to capture Karabakh Continued on Page 2 mariners with food and water,” the coalition said. The USS Churchill established that it was anti-smuggling operation. “The birds are not carrying the type of battery the vessel Bid to smuggle listed as rare and endangered species and required, so it sought assistance from Oman’s their trade is strictly banned,” said senior coastguard, which duly arrived to “render fur- customs officer Mohammad Saqif Saeed. ther assistance”. — AFP endangered He did not identify the species of the birds but estimated their value to be around falcons foiled 200 million rupees (over $1 million) on the Iran virus deaths top 30,000 black market. KARACHI: Pakistani authorities said Authorities have arrested two suspects TEHRAN: The death toll in Iran from the coron- yesterday they had foiled an attempt to and plan to release the birds into the wild. avirus pandemic has crossed the 30,000 mark, smuggle dozens of endangered falcons The houbara bustard is a desert bird the health ministry announced yesterday. worth more than one million dollars out of whose meat is prized as an aphrodisiac. “Unfortunately, we have lost 253 of our fellow cit- the country. Wildlife traffickers catch fal- Falcons are often used by wealthy hunting izens to COVID-19 over the past 24 hours,” min- cons in Pakistan’s mountainous north, parties from the Gulf who travel to istry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told a daily often to sell them for lucrative profits in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan briefing. The latest deaths raised the overall toll to the Gulf region, where hunting with the province every winter to catch and kill the 30,123 for the eight months since Iran reported its birds is a popular sport. houbara. An earlier ban on the sport was first fatalities from the novel coronavirus. Iran Customs officials seized 75 falcons overturned by Pakistan’s top court. Two recorded 4,103 new cases over the past 24 hours, and a houbara bustard at locations hundred rare falcons were reportedly bringing the total caseload so far to 526,490, the around the southern port city of Karachi KARACHI: A custom official touches a falcon that was recovered from illegal ministry spokeswoman added. — AFP exported to Qatar from Pakistan earlier in what they called an “unprecedented” this year on special permission. — AFP captivity during a press briefing yesterday. — AFP 2 Established 1961 Sunday, October 18, 2020 Local UN, FAO mark World Food Day: Time to recognize food heroes Kuwait displayed high level of competence in emergency planning: UN representative KUWAIT: Every year on 16 October, the world cel- diets and sedentary lifestyles have led to soaring taining functioning food systems even amid disrup- ebrates World Food Day, and this year it marks the overweight and obesity rates, not only in the devel- tions as unprecedented as the current COVID-19 75th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture oped counties, but also in low-income countries, crisis,” Dr El-Sheikh added.