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France: No Samuel Paty school after backlash over name change A French town won't rename a school after Samuel Paty — who was slain by an Islamist extremist — following backlash from teachers and parents. The move marks a sign of deeper divisions in French society.

February 8, 2021 Lisa Louis

(Deutsche Welle) No one at the school “The Eucalypts” in the village of Ollioules, near the Mediterranean coast in southern France, wants to talk to the media anymore. Sandra Olivier, maths teacher and member of the teachers’ union SNES-FSU, turned down DW’s […]

Teacher who warned of the threat of radical Islam is placed under police protection in France after receiving death threats (LINK ONLY)

February 8, 2021 EoI News

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France’s ‘teenage Rushdie’ earns 50,000 death threats with one jibe at Islam (LINK ONLY)

January 24, 2021 EoI News

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French Muslim Council agrees accord on ‘principles’ sought by Macron

January 17, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) France’s Muslim federations agreed Sunday on a “charter of principles” requested by President Emmanuel Macron in his bid to eradicate sectarianism and extremism. Macron urged the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) to devise the charter in November, after the […]

Remembrances of Hyper Cacher victims begin, ahead of sixth anniversary of terror attack

January 8, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Algemeiner) Six years after the tragic events, commemorations began Thursday to the victims of the 2015 Islamist attacks in Paris against the Charlie Hebdo magazine, on Jan. 7, and the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket two days later. “This morning, 6 years later, […]

Paris holds solemn ceremonies to remember victims of January 2015 attacks

January 7, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) The French capital [paid] tribute on Thursday to the victims of the terror attacks that occurred at the beginning of 2015. The ceremonies were “marked by sobriety,” due to reinforced health measures in the context of the Covid-19 crisis. Six […]

Europe terror: EU vows to tackle extremism as attacks continue in 2020

December 30, 2020 Henry Ridgwell

(VOA) Europe has faced a series of terror attacks on its soil during 2020, prompting the European Union to pledge a crackdown on extremism both online and within communities, alongside enhanced security at its borders. France was once again a target for […]

France charges four over attack on former Charlie Hebdo offices

December 18, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French authorities have charged and detained four Pakistanis suspected of links to a meat cleaver attack by a compatriot outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly that wounded two people, the national counter-terrorism prosecutor’s office said Friday. The four […]

French court jails Moroccan for life over foiled 2015 train attack

December 17, 2020 Marie Dhumieres

(AFP) A French court on Thursday jailed for life a Moroccan man who planned a terror attack on a Paris-bound international train in 2015 but was thwarted by passengers including off-duty US soldiers. The Paris court convicted Ayoub El Khazzani, now 31, […]

French court hands guilty verdicts to all Charlie Hebdo accomplices

December 16, 2020 Mike Woods

(Radio France) A Paris court has handed guilty verdicts to 14 suspects accused of helping to plan deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine, police officers and a kosher market in January 2015. The court dropped terror qualifications for six suspects, citing evidence […]

Trial over deadly Paris jihadist attacks to begin late 2021

December 11, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The trial of 20 people charged over the November 13, 2015, jihadist attacks in Paris that were France’s deadliest peacetime atrocity will get underway in late 2021, sources close to the case and prosecutors said on Friday. The night of carnage […]

French government unveils new law tackling Islamist extremism

December 9, 2020 Unlisted Author

(France 24) French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday secured his cabinet’s blessing for a draft law targeting “radical Islamism” following a spate of terror attacks, a move some critics fear will stigmatise the French Muslim community, Europe’s largest. The text was originally […]

Charlie Hebdo attack: France seeks long jail terms in Paris trial

December 8, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) France’s anti-terror prosecutors have called for defendants on trial for a series of militant Islamist attacks in Paris to be given long jail terms. The January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine, a policewoman and a Jewish supermarket left 17 people […]

French lawyers express dismay at downplaying of antisemitism during trial of terror suspects linked to Jan. 2015 attacks

December 7, 2020 Ben Cohen

(Algemeiner) Prosecutors at the trial in France of 14 defendants charged with providing support to the Islamist terrorists behind the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris began their closing arguments in court on Monday, amid concern that the antisemitic character of the […]

Samuel Paty: French security services failed to act over incendiary social media campaign (LINK ONLY)

December 4, 2020 EoI News

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Islamist extremists plotting Christmas terror campaign in UK and Europe, warns former MI6 spy (LINK ONLY)

December 3, 2020 EoI News

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Four more students charged in France over teacher’s beheading

November 26, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Four teenage students have been charged in France over the killing of Samuel Paty, including three for allegedly pointing out the teacher to his murderer, a judical source said Thursday. Three other pupils were charged with complicity earlier this month over […]

Canadian imam calls Jews ‘brothers of monkeys and pigs’ B’nai Brith Canada asks police to investigate imam with a history of anti-Semitic and radical Islamic incitement.

November 25, 2020 Paul Shindman

(World Israel News) B’nai Brith Canada contacted police to investigate an Islamic religious leader in British Columbia for his latest incitement against Jews, the organization said [in] a statement Tuesday. Local imam Younus Kathrada in the provincial capital of Victoria posted a […]

Paris suburbs teacher: Third of pupils think criticising Islam ‘not normal,’ question value of free expression

November 20, 2020 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) In the aftermath of the Islamist murder of Samuel Paty, a teacher in the Paris no-go suburbs has claimed up to one-third of her pupils openly question freedom of expression and say it is “not normal” to criticise Islam. The teacher […]

At Thalys attack trial, passengers recount stopping gunman with bare hands

November 19, 2020 Tangi Salaun

(Reuters) Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a high-speed train in France in 2015. The testimony was given in the […]

Trial starts over foiled Paris train attack that inspired movie

November 16, 2020 Marie Dhumieres

(AFP) A Moroccan man and three alleged accomplices went on trial in France Monday for an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago that was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Hollywood legend […]

Trial to begin over foiled Paris train attack that inspired movie

November 13, 2020 Marie Dhumieres

(AFP) A Moroccan man goes on trial in France on Monday accused of an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago which was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Director Clint Eastwood, 90, […]

Attacker in Nice had picture of teacher’s killer: prosecutors

November 13, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The Tunisian migrant who killed three people at a French church last month had a picture on his phone of the man who beheaded a teacher two weeks earlier, anti-terror prosecutors said Friday. In addition to the photograph of 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov […]

Five years after Paris attacks, France still scarred and back on alert

November 13, 2020 Richard Lough and Tangi Salaun

(Reuters) Five years after Islamist killers struck in postwar France’s deadliest attack, its prime minister on Friday paid tribute to the victims, with the country again on high alert following a new wave of ideologically driven violence. The Nov. 13, 2015, rampage […]

France on edge five years after Paris attacks

November 11, 2020 Tiphaine Le Liboux and Alexandre Hielard

(AFP) Five years after a squad of jihadist killers carried out France’s deadliest peacetime atrocity, the country is again on its highest security alert following a spate of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals. The night of carnage on November 13, 2015, saw […]

French minister seeks to ease tensions over cartoons in Cairo visit

November 8, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was in Egypt Sunday where he sought to ease tensions with the Arab world, after the furore surrounding the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Le Drian met with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Foreign […]

Two more teens arrested in case of teacher threatened over Islamic terror cartoon

November 7, 2020 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) Police in Rotterdam arrested two more suspects on Saturday as part of the investigation into threats made against a schoolteacher at the Emmauscollege. The apprehended suspects include an 18-year-old man from The Hague and a 17-year-old boy from Amsterdam. They were suspected […]

French PM says ‘radical Islamism’ the ‘enemy’ after Nice attack

November 7, 2020 Claudine Renaud

(AFP) French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Saturday lamented the killings of three people killed by a knife attacker in Mediterranean city Nice and named “radical Islamism” as an “enemy” for the country. “We know the enemy, it has not only been […]

Three teens charged in French teacher’s beheading

November 6, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Three teenagers were indicted Friday in the murder of French history teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded last month after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed to his students during a free speech lesson, a judicial source told AFP. Two 18-year-old men and […]

Dutch PM Rutte condemns threats to teacher over cartoon

November 6, 2020 Mike Corder

(AP) Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Friday that threats that forced a teacher in the port city of Rotterdam to go [into] hiding after some students objected to a political cartoon displayed in his classroom must not be tolerated. Rutte spoke […]

Suspect arrested in case around threatened Rotterdam teacher

November 6, 2020 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The police arrested an 18-year-old woman from Rotterdam on Friday morning in the investigation into threats made against a local teacher over a cartoon he had in his classroom. The young woman is suspected of incitement, the police said. “The […]

Trudeau speaks with Macron amid furor over his response to attacks in France

November 5, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free expression in a call with the president of France on Thursday, his office says. The conversation with France’s Emmanuel Macron came one week after three people were killed in a deadly knife assault in […]

Man sentenced to life after failed French church bombing

November 5, 2020 Nicolas Vaux-Montagny

(AP) A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State […]

Rotterdam teacher in hiding over Islamic terror cartoon: report

November 5, 2020 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) A teacher from the Emmauscollege in Rotterdam went into hiding because he was threatened over a cartoon that hung in his classroom, according to newspaper NRC. The cartoon was drawn by cartoonist Joep Bertram about the attack on satire magazine […]

Muslims want Borat posters stripped from Paris buses (LINK ONLY)

November 4, 2020 EoI News

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Trudeau defends freedom of speech after outcry over comments on Paris attack French president called Quebec premier to thank him for support — but didn't call the prime minister

November 3, 2020 Peter Zimonjic

(CBC) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed Tuesday to clarify comments he made last week about the limits of free speech after a teacher in France was beheaded by a terrorist for showing cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a class […]

Party suffers setback in acquiring rights to Charlie Hebdo cartoons Meanwhile, tensions are rising all over Denmark, with PET concerned the terror risk has increased as a result

November 2, 2020 Helen Jones

(Copenhagen Post) Nye Borgerlige has been delayed in its efforts to publish Charlie Hebdo’s Mohammed cartoons in Danish newspapers. The ad campaign was intended as a show of support after the murder of Samuel Paty, who showed his classroom a depiction of […]

France honours slain teacher as school resumes

November 2, 2020 Stuart Williams

(AFP) France on Monday honoured the teacher beheaded near his school by a suspected Islamist radical as millions of students returned to class after a spate of attacks that have put the country on edge. Schoolchildren across France observed a minute of […]

More arrests as French Catholics pray in shadow of attack in Nice

November 1, 2020 Vincent-Xavier Morvan and Stuart Williams

(AFP) French Catholics on Sunday celebrated the All Saints religious festival under heavy security, as police made two new arrests over an attack on a church in the southern city of Nice blamed on an Islamist knifeman. Three people were killed in […]

Soldiers will continue to patrol the streets until December

November 1, 2020 Alan Hope

(Brussels Times) Military patrols will be maintained on the streets of the country’s cities until 2 December at the earliest, the government has decided. In May this year, the caretaker administration of Sophie Wilmès took the decision to bring an end to […]

French Muslims, stigmatized by attacks, feel under pressure

November 1, 2020 Elaine Ganley

(AP) The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts of extremist violence, including two beheadings. President Emmanuel Macron has […]

Macron says he understands Muslims’ shock over prophet cartoons In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, French President Emmanuel Macron says he understands the ‘sentiments’ being expressed by the Muslim world over cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.

October 31, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Al-Jazeera) French President Emmanuel Macron says he understands the feelings of Muslims who are shocked by the displaying of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad but added that the “radical Islam” he is trying to fight is a threat to all people, especially Muslims. […]

Free speech has limits, Canada’s Trudeau says

October 30, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was “not without limits” and should not “arbitrarily and needlessly hurt” certain communities. “We will always defend freedom of expression,” Trudeau said in response to a question […]

Police break up protest outside London’s French embassy as Muslims demonstrate against ‘disrespect of Muhammad’ (LINK ONLY)

October 30, 2020 EoI News

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New York mosques to protest Macron’s ‘blatant disrespect of the prophet’

October 30, 2020 Steven Emerson

(IPT) A consortium of New York mosques plans to protest at the French Consulate in Manhattan this Sunday to express their rage at Emmanuel Macron’s support for publishing caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. “The French President is directly provoking the Muslim world […]

Molenbeek teacher suspended for showing naked cartoon of prophet Mohammed

October 30, 2020 Jason Spinks

(Brussels Times) A teacher was suspended from a municipal primary school in Molenbeek, Brussels, after showing a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed naked. The teacher was teaching a class on civic spirit to sixth-grade pupils and passed around a tablet, reportedly asking […]

Shocked France bolsters security after church killings

October 30, 2020 Joseph Schmid

(AFP) The French government on Friday vowed to send thousands more police onto the streets to ensure security as investigators sought to uncover what motivated a young Tunisian to kill three people inside a church in the southern city of Nice. The […]

Macron vows defiance after ‘Islamist’ knife attack in church kills three

October 30, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country’s second attack blamed on Islamist terrorism this month. France will not “give up on our […]

Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence

October 29, 2020 Angela Charlton and Lori Hinnant

(AP) It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won’t stop poking fun at Islamic extremism. The newspaper’s many critics worldwide say its editorial […]

France church attacker arrived in Europe from Tunisia days ago

October 29, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A Tunisian man who killed three people in a church in France only recently arrived in Europe, officials say. The suspect, 21, had an Italian Red Cross document, issued after he arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa by migrant boat […]