France honours beheaded teacher as Macron ramps up anti-extremism campaign

PARIS - France will pay tribute Wednesday to a history teacher beheaded in a quiet Paris suburb as President Emmanuel Macron promised to intensify a clampdown on Islamist extremism.

Paty had been the subject of an online hate campaign since showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during class on free speech - the same images that sparked a bloody assault on the officials of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo when they were originally published five years ago. The head of the mosque, M'hammed Henniche, said he had shared the video out of fear that Muslim children were being singled out in class.

Macron has also added an international dimension to his anti-extremism efforts, asking Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for strengthened cooperation in the fight against terrorism during a phone call on Tuesday.

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