French police operations underway after beheading of teacher

France’s inside minister stated Monday that police operations are underway into dozens of people that allegedly issued messages of assist for the attacker after the beheading of a historical past trainer close to Paris.

Gerald Darmanin stated on French radio Europe 1 that not less than 80 circumstances of hate speech have been reported since Friday’s assault.

Samuel Paty was beheaded in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, by a 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, who was later shot lifeless by police. Police officers stated Paty had mentioned caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad together with his class, resulting in threats.

French President Emmanuel Macron held a protection council on Sunday on the Elysee presidential palace. The authorities will reinforce safety at colleges when lessons resume on Nov. 2 after two weeks of holidays, Macron’s workplace stated.

French President Emmanuel Macron met with Paty’s household on Monday morning, the French presidency stated.

Macron may even meet with the members of France’s main Muslim group, the French Muslim Council, or CFCM, later within the day.

A nationwide homage is to be held for Paty on Wednesday.

Players, coaches and referees at high-level soccer matches this weekend will put on a black armband in a tribute to Paty. The French league stated in an announcement Monday {that a} minute of silence will probably be noticed earlier than kick-off in any respect skilled matches in leagues 1 and a pair of.

Tens of 1000’s of demonstrators gathered on Sunday throughout France in assist of freedom of speech and in reminiscence of the slain 47-year-old trainer.

French authorities stated they detained 11 individuals following the killing.

Darmanin stated they embody the daddy of a pupil and an Islamist activist who each “obviously launched a fatwa,” or non secular ruling, towards the trainer.

A person who stated he was the daddy of a pupil had posted a video on social media asserting that Paty had proven a picture of a unadorned man and advised college students it was “the prophet of the Muslims.” He known as on different offended mother and father to contact him, and relay the message.

Darmanin stated authorities had been additionally wanting into about 50 associations suspected of encouraging hate speech. Some will probably be dissolved, he stated.

The president of the Conference of imams in France, Hassen Chalghoumi, stated “we are hurt, we are condemning this barbaric act,” on French information broadcaster BFM TV. “Samuel is a martyr of freedom.”

“Barbarism has no place in schools nor elsewhere in France,” he stated.

Chalghoumi, who’s an imam in Drancy, a suburb northeast of Paris, stated he had acquired demise threats and insults on social media from radical Islamists in latest days.

Justice authorities opened an investigation for homicide with a suspected terrorist motive. At least 4 of these detained are members of the family of the attacker, who had been granted 10-year residency in France as a refugee in March. He was armed with a knife and an airsoft gun, which fires plastic pellets.

Anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard stated a textual content claiming duty and {a photograph} of the sufferer had been discovered on the attacker’s telephone.