France detains 15 people in connection with teacher’s murder

Four school students are among 15 people taken into custody in France following the beheading of a teacher Samuel Paty, who showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils.

The other detainees include four family members of the killer, a father at the school and a known Islamist radical.

On Monday, police carried out some 40 raids on the homes of suspected radicals and more raids are expected.

The brutal killing has shocked France.