PARIS—The French government issued an order on Wednesday to dissolve a domestic Islamic extremist group after the beheading last week near Paris of a teacher who had shown students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said the Collective Cheikh Yassine group was formally banned during a Cabinet meeting because it was “implicated, linked to Friday’s attack” and it was used to promote anti-republican hate speech. Other groups will be dissolved “in the coming weeks” for similar reasons, Attal said.
