Following the brutal beheading of a history teacher, France conducted dozens of raids, shuttered a mosque and a few associations they say have connections to radical Islam.
During the meeting of an iner-agency crisis group set up to fight radical Islam in the Paris area, French President Emmanuel Macron said that more measures need to taken to address a national yearning to stamp out extremism.
“We stepped up actions over recent days,” Macron said.
“It’s not about making new statements,” he added, “we know what we need to do.”
Moreover, the French president announced that on Wednesday the Cabinet will dissolve a pro-Hamas organization known as "Cheikh Yassine", which he said was “directly involved” in the gruesome assassination of Samuel Paty, the eighth-grade teacher who was killed after he showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed during a class discussion on freedom of speech.
The killer, identified as Abdullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by French police shortly after the attack.
According to French media reports, 11 people, including four members of the attacker’s family, have been detained as part of the ongoing investigation.
Cheikh Yassine organization
Abdelhakim Sefrioui, president of the “Cheikh Yassine collective.” Sheikh Ahmad Yassin was a founder of the Hamas terror group. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip in 2004.
According to French newspaper Liberation, Sefrioui was known to French security services for his Islamist activities and anti-Semitic speeches.
In July 2014, Sefrioui participated in protests in Paris, chanting slogans in praise of Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
He reportedly denounced the teacher in a video posted to social media a few days prior to the attack.
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