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Muslims 'not persecuted' in France, says country's Muslim council
French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to take the fight to Islamist radicals after the 16 October beheading of a history teacher who had shown cartoons of...
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Pogba to take legal action after 'fake news' France retirement rumours
According to reports in the Middle East picked up by British tabloid The Sun, World Cup winner Pogba wanted to end his international career after Macron vowed to take the fight to Islamic radicals after the October 16 beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty.
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Man charged for 'liking' photo of murdered French teacher
He was already on the radar of the authorities for having endorsed a massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that first published the Mohammed cartoons.
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Two French women charged over 'racist' stabbing of veiled Muslim women
The case comes amid heightened racial tensions following the jihadist killing last week of a French teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
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We will not give up cartoons: Macron in homage to murdered teacher
France will not give up cartoons, President Emmanuel Macron vowed Wednesday in a homage to teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded for having shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils in a lesson on free speech.
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Pupils pointed French teacher out to killer 'for €300-350'
Samuel Paty was attacked on his way home on Friday from the junior high school where he taught in the suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
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France honours beheaded teacher as Macron ramps up anti-extremism campaign
Police have carried out dozens of raids, while the government has ordered the six-month closure of a mosque and plans to dissolve a group that supports Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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French teacher's killer 'in contact' with pupil's father before attack
Police sources said earlier that the 18-year-old killer had exchanged messages on WhatsApp with the man who wanted Samuel Paty fired after his daughter told him how the teacher had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson on free speech.
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France closes Paris mosque in clampdown over teacher's beheading
The interior ministry said the mosque in Pantin, which has some 1,500 worshippers, would be shut on Wednesday night for six months.
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French police target Islamist networks after teacher's beheading
Fifteen people have been detained so far, including four pupils who may have helped the killer - an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who was killed by police - to identify the teacher in return for payment.
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French police raid Islamist groups after teacher's beheading
The raids came a day after tens of thousands of people took part in rallies countrywide to honour teacher Samuel Paty and defend freedom of expression, including the right to show cartoons regarded by many Muslims as insulting.
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'We are not afraid': France rallies after beheading of teacher
Samuel Paty was brutally murdered on his way home from the school where he taught in a suburb northwest of Paris on Friday afternoon.
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France to rally in solidarity, defiance after beheading of teacher
The killing of history teacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb Friday has sparked outrage in France and memories of a wave of Islamist violence in 2015 sparked by caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo'.
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France beheading suspect had no links with Russia
The attacker was shot by police as they tried to arrest him and later died of his injuries.
