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Rabat – Police in Barcelona, Spain, arrested a Moroccan for allegedly “justifying” the beheading of maestro Samuel Paty in France on October 16.
Reports say police arrested the Moroccan suspect on Friday for supporting the murder of Samuel Paty on social media sites.
Since then, Spain has released the Moroccan man, but confiscated his passport to prevent him from traveling.
An 18-year-old Russian-born Chechen student killed Paty for showing Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
The murder sparked outrage in France, shocking both Muslims and non-Muslims who condemned the gruesome act.
Other violent attacks followed, including the October 29 stabbing in Nice, southern France, during which a woman was beheaded and two others died.
A 21-year-old migrant from Tunisia carried out the attacks, wounding several more near the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice.
Reports say the man came to France through Italy. Italy issued a deportation order against him for irregular migration.
On the same day as the attack in Nice near the church, police in France also shot dead a man in Avignon for threatening people in public with a weapon.
Concerns were raised by both the rise in violence and Islamophobia.
Muslims and Arabs in France feared increasing discrimination after controversial comments from President Emmanuel Macron.
Before the attacks, in early October, Macron said Islam is a religion in crisis around the world after a man carried out a stabbing attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo, in response to the magazine. satirist who republished her cartoons of the prophet in September.
After the attack on Samuel Paty on October 16, Macron said that “Islamists want” the future of France.
He also said that France will not give up its cartoons, defending them as emblems of freedom of expression.
In response, Arabs and Muslims around the world launched a campaign to boycott French products.
After the attacks that left three people dead in Nice, Macron called the killings “Islamist terrorism”, which increased anger among Muslims.
In an attempt to appease Muslims, Macron said he can understand the frustration that people express against the cartoons.
Macron, however, called the campaign against French products “unworthy” and “unacceptable.”
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