The French Police on Monday raided homes of dozens of
suspected Islamist militants three days after teach Samuel Paty was beheaded
for showing his pupils cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, reported ANI quoting the
interior minister.

A national tribute to commemorate
the life of Samuel Paty  is scheduled for
Wednesday.

The raids come a day after thousands of protestors
marched to protest the heinous act across France. French politician Gerald Darmanin was
intimated that the raids were a message to “enemies of the Republic”
who would not be allowed “a minute’s respite.”

He further stated that 80 investigation had been launched
to probe online hate speech following the attack.

The attack on Samuel Paty has evoked parallels with the
brutal Charlie Hebdo massacre, where 12 people were gunned down for publishing
cartoons on Prophet Mohammed.

People on Sunday congregated at the Place de la
Republique in Paris to denounce radical extremism.

Paty, 47, was murdered on Friday afternoon, while
returning home from his school in Northwest Paris.

A photo of the teacher along with a message confessing
his crime was found on the mobile phone of his killer, an 18-year-old Chechen
man Abdullah Anzorov. Anzorov was later shot dead by the police.

Eleven people have been held over the attack on Samuel
Paty, including the parent of one of Paty’s pupil who had rallied against him
online.

France’s interior minister Darmanin also accused two men of
issuing a ‘fatwa’ against Paty.

“They apparently
launched a fatwa against the teacher,” Gerald Darmanin told Europe 1 radio.

Paty had been a target of
online abuse for showing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed to his civics class.
According to his school, Paty had provided Muslim children the option to leave
the classroom before he showed the cartoons, as he did not wish to spurn
someone’s feeling.

French President Emmanuel
Macron, on Sunday, ordered a swift action to counter the radical Islamist
propaganda online.