Muslim Stabs Professor To Death Because He ‘Insulted Mohammed’

Arrested: Ali R. was arrested at the scene after stabbing Irish university lecturer 

John Dowling, 66, to death outside the Leonardo de Vinci university in Paris

• John Dowling, 66, stabbed to death outside the Leonardo de Vinci university
• Ali R., 37, was arrested at the scene and has admitted to killing the Irish lecturer
• The Pakistani national claims Dowling had ‘insulted the Prophet Mohammed'
• He also confessed he held a personal grudge against Dowling for failing him

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.

Ali – whose surname has not been disclosed by the French authorities – is due to be indicted for murder in Paris today for the attack outside the Leonardo de Vinci private university in La Defense business district.

Catherine Denis, the Nanterre prosecutor involved in the case, said Ali harboured an ‘obsessive resentment’ against the university for kicking him out in September 2017.

‘He came to France two years ago to join the management school, but did not pass his first year,’ she said.

‘Since then he had been returning to the college, and had become unwanted to the point that he was not allowed in any more.’

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...

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