Paris:A knife-wielding man shouted “Allahu Akbar” and then beheaded a middle school teacher on a street in Paris on Friday — in apparent retaliation after the educator had shown students cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, according to reports.

Immediately after the beheading, the attacker claimed responsibility and posted an image of his victim’s severed head on Twitter, a police source said.

The attacker — who was also armed with a gun and shot dead moments later by cops — was the father of a student at the school who may have had terrorist ties, according to media
reports.

His victim taught history and had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from the magazine Charlie Hebdo during a class debate on freedom of expression.

Confronted, the suspect threatened police, who opened fire, killing him, the reports said.