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The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) has condemned the beheading of a teacher in the northwestern suburbs of Paris in France. UNAOC high representative Miguel Moratinos said that such heinous crime is unjustifiable whenever, wherever and by whomsoever committed.

The UNAOC chief asserted that togetherness, peace and tolerance are rooted in religions across the faith spectrum. The French teacher was killed on Friday after he taught freedom of speech and showed caricatures depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad to his students.

The main suspect, a Moscow-born Chechen teenager, was chased down and shot to death by the police. France’s anti-terrorism state prosecutor, Jean-Francois Ricard, confirmed that nine people had been detained as part of the investigation so far.