France on Monday honoured the teacher beheaded in front of his school by a suspected Islamist radical in a murder that shocked the country, as millions of students returned to classes after the autumn break.

France honours slain teacher as school resumes

Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday compared French President Emmanuel Macron with a "terrorist." The head of Russia's Muslim-majority southern region, in a strongly-worded statement, condemned Macron for his defence of the murdered French schoolteacher who had shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Chechen strongman calls Macron 'terrorist' provoking Muslims

A young man who "liked" a gruesome Twitter picture showing French teacher Samuel Paty after he was murdered has been charged with glorifying terrorism, French authorities said Sunday.

Man charged for 'liking' photo of murdered French teacher

Two days after a Russian-born Islamist beheaded a teacher, the French government is preparing to expel 231 foreigners for suspected extremist religious beliefs. Also read | Fatwa was launched against beheaded teacher: French minister French history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the northern Paris suburbs, by an 18-year-old man who was subsequently shot dead by police.

231 'radicalised' foreign nationals will be expelled from the country: France

French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday that a fatwa has been launched against the beheaded teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class.

Fatwa was launched against beheaded teacher: French minister