French Police Conduct Raids Against Suspected Extremists After Teacher's Beheading
The attack was carried out on Friday in apparent response to a lesson about freedom of expression that showed the students cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Police in France raided numerous homes Monday in a sweep of suspects alleged to have offered online support for last week's beheading of a school teacher who had shown his students controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the interior ministry said.
The raids come as thousands have poured into the streets in France to show solidarity in the wake of Friday's attack in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine,was killed by a man later identified as an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen.
