'Throw your gun! Get on the ground!' Footage shows fatal showdown between police and Paris Islamist after he beheaded a teacher 'because fathers issued fatwa' for showing Mohammed cartoon to their children

Dramatic footage shows the fatal stand-off between French police and the terrorist they shot dead last Friday after he beheaded a school teacher who showed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his class.

Armed police yelled at the killer to 'throw your gun' and 'get on the ground' during the showdown in the Paris suburbs, but the terrorist ignored the repeated warnings and refused to drop his weapon.

There were panicked cries when he aimed his gun, which were captured on amateur video from a nearby house, but his weapon was only a BB gun and his ammunition a supply of plastic pellets.

With the suspect refusing to back down, the officers closed in and fired a succession of fatal gunshots, leaving the 18-year-old terrorist dead in the street.

The video was taken by a local resident from a house outside which the incident took place. In the footage, a flashing police car can be seen pulled up just beyond the resident's back garden.

Police officers can be heard shouting at the terrorist during the standoff, ordering him to get onto the ground and drop his weapon.

'On the ground, on the ground!' one officer shouts repeatedly.

Their shouts grow more urgent and panicked as one of them says: 'He's firing, he's firing.'

'It's BB gun pellets.'

The terrorist refused to drop his weapon, which was not caught on the footage, before officers can be heard firing at him and killing him.

The killer, Chechen extremist Aboulakh Anzorov, is thought to have responded to a 'fatwa' issued against teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic preacher and a parent of a girl in Paty's class, France's interior minister said today.

The father, Brahim Chnina, whose 13-year-old daughter went to Paty's secondary school, had launched an online call for 'mobilisation' against the teacher and had sought his dismissal from the school over the cartoons.

Chnina had named Paty and given the school's address in a social media post just days before the assault, which Macron labelled an Islamist terror attack.

In addition, his half-sister is known to have joined ISIS in 2014, although her current whereabouts are unknown.

Police today raided the homes of dozens of suspected militants in a crackdown which interior minister Gerald Darmanin said was intended to send a message that 'enemies of the Republic' will not enjoy 'a minute's respite'.

Darmanin told Europe 1 radio that police operations were continuing against 'dozens of individuals' after 11 people were arrested over the weekend and Emmanuel Macron vowed new measures against extremism.

He said there were about 80 investigations under way into online hate speech in France and that he was looking into whether or not certain groups from the French Muslim community should be dissolved.

According to Le Monde, Anzorov had tried to bribe students with hundreds of euros for information about the teacher, with a 15-year-old pupil apparently among those arrested. The boy 'absolutely denies knowing what Anzorov was going to do,' said an investigating source.

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Prime minister Castex wrote on Twitter: 'Through one of its defenders, it is the Republic which has been struck in the heart by Islamist terrorism.

'In solidarity with its teachers, the State will react with the greatest firmness so that the Republic and its citizens live, free! We will never give up. Never.'

Addressing the country's teachers, pupils and their parents, education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said Paty was killed by what he called the enemies of freedom.

'The Republic will never, never, never back down when confronted by terror, intimidation,' he said in a recorded statement.

Lawmakers and teachers' unions hailed the teacher's courage for confronting challenging taboos in French society. .

Jean-Remi Girard, president of the National Union of School Teachers, told BFM TV that children needed to understand that blasphemy can shock, but is legal.

Sophie Vénétitay, deputy head of the SNES-FSU teachers' union, said: 'He was murdered because he was doing his job, namely teaching critical thought.'

She said Mr Paty was a history and geography teacher who was in charge of 'moral and civic education'.

'In that capacity, he gave a lesson on freedom of expression with the Mohammed cartoons,' she said.

Other politicians lined up to express their horror at the killing, with Xavier Bertrand, centre-right president of the Hauts-de-France region, saying: 'Islamist barbarity has taken aim at one of the symbols of the Republic: school. The terrorists want to shut us up, to bring us to our knees.

'They should know that we will not bend, they will never forbid us to read, write, draw, think, teach.'

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Rally, said: 'A teacher beheaded for showing Charlie Hebdo caricatures. We are in France with this level of unbearable barbarity. Islamism is waging war on us: it is by force that we must drive them out of our country.'

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, head of the far-left party France Unbowed, said: 'Horrible crime in Conflans! In fact, the assassin takes himself for the god that he claims he follows. He is sullying religion. And he is inflicting on us all the hell of having to live with murderers like him.'

Muslim leaders also condemned the killing, which many public figures perceived as an attack on the essence of French statehood and its values of secularism, freedom of worship and freedom of expression.

Tareq Oubrou, the imam of a Bordeaux mosque, said of the killing, 'It is not a civilisation that kills an innocent person, it is barbarity'.

France is reportedly considering a plan to expel from the country around 230 foreign suspected extremists.

The suspected extremists are on a government watchlist.

Thousands of battle-hardened Chechen refugees, including many devout Muslims, entered France in the early 2000s following two bloody wars against Russia.

Around 30,000 Chechens in total escaped to France, many of them resettling in the suburbs of major cities such as Paris.

France has seen occasional violence involving its Chechen community in recent months – in the Dijon region, the Mediterranean city of Nice, and the western town of Saint-Dizier – believed to be linked to local criminal activity.

People gather in front of the Bois d'Aulne college after the attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine

Teenagers arriving to lay flowers in front of Bois d'Aulne middle school to pay their respect after Mr Paty's murder

French police officers were seen standing guard and holding firearms at the end of the street where the teenager was shot dead after refusing to surrender

A police source said the scene has been cordoned off and a bomb disposal unit dispatched because of the suspected presence of an explosive vest

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