University teacher stabbed to death in Paris, Pakistani suspect arrested

• Sarwar Alam
• 05 December, 2018

By: Sarwar Alam

A Pakistani man was arrested on Wednesday (5) on suspicion of stabbing to death a teacher in broad daylight outside a university in the Paris suburbs. The 66-year-old teacher, John Dowling, an Irishman who taught English, was stabbed repeatedly in front of the private Leonard-de-Vinci university in Courbevoie, northwest of Paris. Higher Education Minister Frederique Vidal expressed “deep shock and anger” at a killing which has stunned students and staff at the university in the La Defense business district just outside the capital. “It’s a tragedy that has struck the whole community. This was a language teacher who had been…

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