French Police Crack Down on Islamists After Teacher Beheading

French Police Crack Down on Islamists After Teacher Beheading
People look at flowers laid in homage to slain history teacher Samuel Paty, outside the Bois d'Aulne secondary school, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on Oct. 19, 2020. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images
Reuters
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PARIS—French police on Monday raided Islamic associations and foreigners suspected of extremist religious beliefs, three days after a suspected Islamist beheaded a school teacher.

History teacher Samuel Paty, 47, was murdered on Friday in broad daylight outside his school in a middle-class Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin. Police shot the attacker dead.