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By Reuters 
10h ago
Paris – More police operations were carried out on Monday in connection with the murder of a French teacher by a suspected Islamist, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
French history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the northern suburbs of Paris, by an 18-year-old man who was later shot and killed by police.
The assassination sparked outrage in France and led to the condemnation of President Emmanuel Macron and the political parties.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that some 80 investigations into online hate speech were underway in France and that he was investigating whether certain groups in the French Muslim community should disband after accusations of promoting violence and violence. hate.
“Police operations have been carried out and more will be carried out, in relation to dozens of people,” he told Europe 1 radio.
A police source told Reuters late Sunday that France was preparing to expel 231 foreigners on a government watch list on suspicion of extremist religious beliefs. It was not immediately clear whether Monday’s operations were connected.
Earlier this month, Paty showed her students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression, which angered several Muslim parents. Muslims believe that any representation of the Prophet is blasphemy.
The attacker, of Chechen origin and born in Russia, lived in the city of Evreux, northwest of Paris. The intelligence services did not know him before.
The murder shocked France and had echoes of an attack five years ago on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published the cartoons. (Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Jean-Stephane Brosse; Editing by Jon Boyle and Timothy Heritage)
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