Irish Lecturer Stabbed to Death in Paris Had 'Insulted the Prophet Mohammed,' Says His Pakistani Killer

By Peter Allen
The Daily Mail
Dec. 08, 2018

An Irish university lecturer stabbed to death by one of his former students had allegedly ‘insulted the Prophet Mohammed', his killer has told French police.

The 66-year-old academic, named locally as John Dowling, was attacked and stabbed 13 times outside the Paris university where he worked on Wednesday.

Ali R., a 37-year-old Pakistani national, has confessed to the killing and told police he held a personal grudge against the teacher after failing his exams last year.

[...]CCTV footage shows Mr Dowling chatting calmly with Ali at around midday, before the attacker took out a steak knife and plunged it into the Irishman’s throat, and then into his chest.

[...]Ms Denis said Ali R. was not known to the intelligence services, but was an ‘obsessive patriot’ from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

He had just renewed his residency permit to stay in France, and had bought the steak knife from a supermarket close to the university.

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