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The father of a student and a known Islamist militant called for the murder of the teacher who was beheaded in Paris on Friday, the French interior minister said.
Larger free speech rallies were held in various parts of France on Sunday, here from Lyon, after a teacher was beheaded near Paris on Friday. Photo: Laurent Cipriani / AP / NTB
“They apparently issued a fatwa against the teacher,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told Europe 1 radio channel.
The two are among eleven people arrested after the murder.
The 47-year-old teacher, Samuel Paty, had shown cartoons of Muhammad from Charlie Hebdo magazine for an hour on freedom of expression in early October.
An 18-year-old man of Chechen origin has been identified as the perpetrator. He was killed by police officers who rushed out after receiving news of the brutal murder at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in Yveline northwest of Paris.
Police in front of the school of the teacher who was beheaded near Paris on Friday. Photo: Michel Euler / AP / NTB
In action against Islamist militants
French police are conducting raids on the homes of several Islamist militants on Monday, French authorities say.
The raids are carried out in the terror investigation after history professor Samuel Paty (47), who had shown cartoons of Muhammad for an hour on free speech, was beheaded in Paris on Friday.
Eleven people, including a known Islamist militant, have been arrested after the murder, considered a terrorist attack.
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