The man, who was not named and who was detained on Friday, posted messages on social media in support of the Oct. 16 murder of Samuel Paty, Catalan regional police said. Paty was killed outside his school in a Paris suburb by an 18-year-old Chechen who was apparently incensed by the teacher showing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in class. An attacker killed three people in a church in Nice on Thursday in the second deadly knife attack in France in two weeks. The attacks came amid growing Muslim anger across the world over France's defence of the right to publish cartoons depicting the prophet. Police will guard French schools in the Spanish region of Catalonia from next week.

Source: bd News24 October 31, 2020 11:48 UTC