[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Samuel Paty, 47, was stabbed to death and beheaded by Aboulakh Anzorov, 18, in a northern suburb of the French capital on Friday afternoon.
Demonstrators also gathered in major cities including Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nantes, Marseille, Lille and Bordeaux.
It has been revealed that Islamist terrorist Anzorov filmed himself killing and then beheading Paty outside the gates of his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine before sharing a video of the victim's severed head to fellow ISIS supporters.
It also emerged that the half-sister of the Russian-born killer travelled to Syria to join ISIS in 2014 and was the subject of an anti-terror investigation.
| Previously reported as the half-sister of the complaining father — no doubt it will soon be revealed which is true. |
Investigations are focusing on Brahim Chnina, father of a 13-year-old girl in Paty's class, who denounced the teacher online and gave details of the school. He has since been arrested.
Branding Mr Paty a thug in a video posted on Twitter sometime in the last week, he asked the community to complain about the teacher's behaviour. The killer is presumed to have seen the video and acted upon it.
After the killing, Anzorov himself shared pictures and videos online with Chechen ISIS Telegram channels, and also denounced President Emmanuel Macron as the 'leader of the infidels'.
Chnina, the concerned parent, and an Islamic activist friend, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, are among 11 people who have been arrested in connection with the attack.
The video shared by Chnina sparked community outrage and was shared by a mosque in Pantin, a Parisian suburb. Days later, Mr Paty was stabbed and decapitated.
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Police today raided the homes of dozens of suspected militants in a crackdown which interior minister Gerald Darmanin said was intended to send a message that 'enemies of the Republic' will not enjoy 'a minute's respite'.
Darmanin told Europe 1 radio that police operations were continuing against 'dozens of individuals' after 11 people were arrested over the weekend and Emmanuel Macron vowed new measures against extremism.
He said there were about 80 investigations under way into online hate speech in France and that he was looking into whether or not certain groups from the French Muslim community should be dissolved.
According to Le Monde, Anzorov had tried to bribe students with hundreds of euros for information about the teacher, with a 15-year-old pupil apparently among those arrested. The boy 'absolutely denies knowing what Anzorov was going to do,' said an investigating source.
Investigators believe 'support for ISIS and other links to extreme Islamism' prompted Anzorov to approach the Bois-d'Aulne school with weapons including a 14-inch kitchen knife and an air pistol.
Anzorov had travelled 50 miles from his home in Evreux to get to the school, where Mr Paty taught history and geography.
Anzorov 'had recently taken up boxing' and had been dismissed from a 'wrestling club in Toulouse' last year, a source told Le Parisien. The club was registered by the French Wrestling Federation but was known for attracting radicalised youths, including many of Chechen origin. 
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