The French counter-terrorism prosecutor said the authorities investigating Samuel Paty’s murder in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on Friday had arrested nine suspects, including the teen’s grandfather, parents and 17-year-old brother.
Mr. Paty had discussed cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed with his class, which led to threats, police officers said.
Islam forbids images of the Prophet and claims that they lead to idolatry.
French counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said an investigation into murder with alleged terrorist motive had opened.
Ricard told reporters that the Moscow-born suspect, who was granted a ten-year residency in France as a refugee in March, was armed with a knife and an airsoft gun that fires plastic pellets.
His half-sister joined the Islamic State Group in Syria in 2014, Ricard said.
He didn’t give her a name and it’s not clear where she is now.
The prosecutor said responsible text and a photo of the victim were found on the suspect’s phone.
He also confirmed that a Twitter account called Abdoulakh A belonged to the suspect.
It published a photo of the decapitated head minutes after the attack, along with the message “I executed one of the dogs from Hell who dared to lay down Mohammed”.
Mr Ricard said the suspect was seen at school asking about the teacher and the headmaster received several threatening calls.
“We will recover thanks to our spirit of solidarity,” said Laurent Brosse, Mayor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
A police officer said the suspect was shot about 600 meters from Mr. Paty’s death.
The police opened fire after he did not respond to orders to lay down his arms and threatened.
French President Emmanuel Macron went to school on Friday evening to denounce a so-called “Islamist terrorist attack”.
He called on the nation to stand together against extremism.
The Elysee Palace announced that a national ceremony will be held at a later date in homage to Mr. Paty.
In a video recently posted on Twitter, a man who described himself as the father of a student claimed that Mr. Paty showed a picture of a naked man and told the students it was “the prophet of Muslims.”
Before Teacher showed the pictures, he asked Muslim children to raise their hands and leave the room because he was going to show something shocking, the man said.
“What was the message he wanted to send to these children? What kind of hate is that? “Asked the man.
Two wars in the 1990s triggered a wave of emigration and many Chechens moved to Western Europe.
France has offered asylum to many Chechens since the Russian military waged war against Islamist separatists in Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s.
France has experienced occasional violence in its Chechen community in recent months, believed to be related to local criminal activity and point clearing.
This is the second time in three weeks that terror has hit France in connection with caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
A young man from Pakistan was arrested last month after attacking two people with a meat cleaver outside Charlie Hebdo’s former offices.
The weekly was the target of a deadly newsroom attack in 2015 and re-published cartoons this month to underscore the right to freedom of information when a lawsuit related to that attack opened.
The Friday terrorist attack came as Mr Macron’s government was working on a bill against Islamic radicals that authorities claim will create a parallel society outside the values of the French Republic.
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