“They apparently launched a fatwa against the teacher,” Minister Gerald Darmanin told Europe 1 radio about the two men, who are among 11 people arrested for the attack on a young Chechen man.
Samuel Paty he was killed on his way home from the school where he taught in a northwestern suburb of Paris on Friday afternoon.
A photo of the teacher and a message confessing his murder were found on the mobile phone of his 18-year-old murderer. Chechen Abdullakh Anzorov, who was shot and killed by the police.
Witnesses said the suspect was seen at the school on Friday asking students where he could find Paty.
French police raid the homes of ‘dozens’ of Islamist militants
French police raided the homes of “dozens” of Islamist militants on Monday three days after the beheading of a teacher who showed his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the interior minister said.
Gerald Darmanin said more than 80 online hate speech investigations had been launched after the murder of the teacher, who had been the target of virulent attacks on the Internet.
France mobilizes after the beheading of a teacher
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Paris and cities in France on Sunday in solidarity with a teacher who was beheaded for showing students cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
Protesters in the Place de la Republique held up posters reading: “No to the totalitarianism of thought” and “I am a teacher” in memory of the murdered colleague Samuel Paty.
“Do not scare us. We are not afraid. You will not divide us. We are France!” tweeted Prime Minister Jean Castex, who joined the Paris rally.
Castex was accompanied by the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the Minister of the Interior, Marlene Schiappa, who said they were there “in support of teachers, secularism, freedom of expression.” Politicians from the other major parties also attended.
the Charlie hebdo The 2015 attack unleashed a wave of Islamist violence and forced France to engage in a national discussion about the place of Islam in a secular society.
After the magazine massacre, around 1.5 million people rallied at the Place de la Republique itself in support of freedom of expression.
Local authorities said about 12,000 people demonstrated in Lyon, eastern France.
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