French militant group and mosque ‘linked to teacher’s killing’ to close

France's president has named a domestic militant Islamist group as “directly implicated” in last week's beheading of a history teacher who had discussed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed with his class.

Emmanuel Macron said the group was to be ordered to be dissolved yesterday, when a mosque that relayed a denunciation of the high school teacher is also to shut.

Speaking after a meeting with regional officials working to counter radical Islamists, Mr Macron added that other associations and individuals are on the radar to be shut or silenced. A judicial official said yesterday that seven people detained as part of the investigation into the grisly murder, including two minors, were togo before a magistrate later in the day for preliminary charges.

The seven were among 16 people, including five adolescents, initially detained for questioning. The other nine were being released.

Meanwhile, more than 1,000 people gathered in drizzly rain to honour Samuel Paty where he was be headed on Friday as he left school in Conflans-Sainte-honorine, north-west of Paris.

Mounds of bouquets of flowers were piled in front of the school.

At error investigation is under way into the murder by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, who was later shot dead by police.

The killer has been identified by authorities as Abdoullakh Anzorov.

Mr Paty had shown caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class earlier this month.

His civics course led to parental complaints and threats.

Sixteen people were detained, including members of the killer’s family and five young adolescent students at Mr Paty’s school.

Investigators are trying to learn how the killer, who lived in the Norm andy town of Evreux, set up his encounter with Mr Pat y, whether there was complicity and whether the beheading was premeditated.

Speaking in the Seine-StDenis region, north-east of Paris, Mr Mac ron reiterated that he wants“tangible results” to combat“ani deology of destruction of the (French) Republic”.

Mr Macrons aida group called the Collective Cheikh Yassine will be ordered to be dissolved at yesterday’s cabinet meeting.

Named after a killed leader of the Palestinian organisation Hamas, the group was founded in the early 2000s by a man who is among those detained for questioning.

Mr Mac ron did not provide details on how the group was “directly implicated” in the attack. Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said later on BF MTV that the person in question help ed disseminate the virulent message of a student”s father against the teacher.

Mr Mac ron has asked for quick, concrete action in the case.

The French president is waging war on what he calls “separatism”, referring to Islamist extremism that authorities say has created a parallel world in the country which counters French values.

A mosque in the Paris suburb of Pantin is also being closed for six months.