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Teenager Charged In France For Hailing Teacher's Beheading
A teenager has been charged in the southern French city of Marseille with supporting terrorism for remarks he made during a homage for murdered teacher Samuel Paty, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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French Police Question Man In Custody Over Alleged Links To Nice Attacker
A 47-year-old man believed to have been in contact with the suspected knifeman who killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice has been detained for questioning, a judicial source said Friday.
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"We Are In War Against Enemy": French Minister Says More Attacks Likely
More attacks on French soil are likely as France is engaged in a "war against Islamist ideology", its interior minister said on Friday.
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Woman Beheaded As 3 Killed At France Church, Mayor Says Terror Attack
A woman was beheaded by an attacker with a knife who also killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police said, in an incident the city's mayor described as terrorism.
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France Vows "Won't Give Up Cartoons" As Teens Charged Over Teacher's Killing
Two teenagers accused of pointing out French teacher Samuel Paty to his killer who beheaded him were on Wednesday charged with complicity in terrorist murder, prosecutors said, as the nation paid homage to the killed educator.
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France To Prosecute Teenagers For Pointing Out Teacher To Killer
Pupils at a school near Paris had pointed out the history teacher beheaded last week to his killer in return for 300 to 350 euros ($356- $414), France's anti-terror prosecutor said Wednesday.
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French Teacher's Killer Contacted Parent Angry Over Prophet Caricatures: Report
The man who beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils, was in contact beforehand with a parent who had launched an online campaign against the teacher, police sources said Tuesday.
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France Closes Paris Mosque In Clampdown Over Teacher's Beheading
French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Police Raid Homes Of "Dozens" Of Islamist Terrorists In France: Minister
French police on Monday raided the homes of dozens of suspected Islamist terrorists three days after the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the interior minister said.
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"Fatwa Launched" Against Beheaded Teacher: French Minister
The father of a schoolgirl and a known Islamist terrorist had urged the killing of a French teacher who was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, France's interior minister said Monday.
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Suspect In French Teacher Beheading Was 18-Year-Old Of Chechen Origin: Report
The man suspected of beheading a French teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed was an 18-year-old born in Moscow and originating from Russia's southern region of Chechnya, a judicial source said on Saturday.
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France Teacher, Who Showed Prophet Caricatures In Class, Beheaded: Police
A history teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class was on Friday decapitated and his assailant shot dead by French police as they tried to arrest him, police and prosecutors said.
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Islamic State Ordered Failed Attack on France
A thwarted attack on a French naval site that was to include the beheading of the base's chief officer followed a direct order from a Syria-based member of Islamic State to "hit France", the Paris prosecutor said on Friday.
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France Announces Terrorism Charge Against Gas Plant Attacker
France's chief public prosecutor said on Tuesday a man arrested last week on suspicion of beheading his boss and trying to blow up an industrial gas plant would be kept behind bars pending an inquiry on terrorism charges.
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French Attacker Denies Religious Aim, Motivations Murky
A man who beheaded his boss in France has denied any religious motivation, investigative sources said today, muddying efforts to pin down the reasons for an attack which bore the hallmarks of a Jihadist act.
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Teenager Charged In France For Hailing Teacher's Beheading
A teenager has been charged in the southern French city of Marseille with supporting terrorism for remarks he made during a homage for murdered teacher Samuel Paty, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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French Police Question Man In Custody Over Alleged Links To Nice Attacker
A 47-year-old man believed to have been in contact with the suspected knifeman who killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice has been detained for questioning, a judicial source said Friday.
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"We Are In War Against Enemy": French Minister Says More Attacks Likely
More attacks on French soil are likely as France is engaged in a "war against Islamist ideology", its interior minister said on Friday.
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Woman Beheaded As 3 Killed At France Church, Mayor Says Terror Attack
A woman was beheaded by an attacker with a knife who also killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police said, in an incident the city's mayor described as terrorism.
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France Vows "Won't Give Up Cartoons" As Teens Charged Over Teacher's Killing
Two teenagers accused of pointing out French teacher Samuel Paty to his killer who beheaded him were on Wednesday charged with complicity in terrorist murder, prosecutors said, as the nation paid homage to the killed educator.
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France To Prosecute Teenagers For Pointing Out Teacher To Killer
Pupils at a school near Paris had pointed out the history teacher beheaded last week to his killer in return for 300 to 350 euros ($356- $414), France's anti-terror prosecutor said Wednesday.
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French Teacher's Killer Contacted Parent Angry Over Prophet Caricatures: Report
The man who beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils, was in contact beforehand with a parent who had launched an online campaign against the teacher, police sources said Tuesday.
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France Closes Paris Mosque In Clampdown Over Teacher's Beheading
French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Police Raid Homes Of "Dozens" Of Islamist Terrorists In France: Minister
French police on Monday raided the homes of dozens of suspected Islamist terrorists three days after the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the interior minister said.
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"Fatwa Launched" Against Beheaded Teacher: French Minister
The father of a schoolgirl and a known Islamist terrorist had urged the killing of a French teacher who was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, France's interior minister said Monday.
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Suspect In French Teacher Beheading Was 18-Year-Old Of Chechen Origin: Report
The man suspected of beheading a French teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed was an 18-year-old born in Moscow and originating from Russia's southern region of Chechnya, a judicial source said on Saturday.
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France Teacher, Who Showed Prophet Caricatures In Class, Beheaded: Police
A history teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class was on Friday decapitated and his assailant shot dead by French police as they tried to arrest him, police and prosecutors said.
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Islamic State Ordered Failed Attack on France
A thwarted attack on a French naval site that was to include the beheading of the base's chief officer followed a direct order from a Syria-based member of Islamic State to "hit France", the Paris prosecutor said on Friday.
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France Announces Terrorism Charge Against Gas Plant Attacker
France's chief public prosecutor said on Tuesday a man arrested last week on suspicion of beheading his boss and trying to blow up an industrial gas plant would be kept behind bars pending an inquiry on terrorism charges.
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French Attacker Denies Religious Aim, Motivations Murky
A man who beheaded his boss in France has denied any religious motivation, investigative sources said today, muddying efforts to pin down the reasons for an attack which bore the hallmarks of a Jihadist act.
