PARIS — The French police are conducting dozens of raids targeting individuals associated with radical Islamists following the decapitation of a teacher on the street last week, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Monday on Europe 1 radio.
The police operations, which began Monday morning, are focusing on people already in police files because the French security services say they have shown “signals” of radicalization, like sharing sermons and messages on social networks, Mr. Darmanin said.
Some 50 Muslim aid organizations will also be targeted by the police this week, the minister said, and that some would be dissolved.
The police actions are part of a broader reaction in France, including by the government, to the killing on Friday of a high school teacher, Samuel Paty, by a young Chechen immigrant for having shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class as part of a discussion on free speech.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Sunday to protest the killing and show solidarity with Mr. Paty.
