Samuel Paty was killed after he showed offensive cartoons of Prophet Muhammad during a class. A 13-year-old schoolgirl has now confessed she lied about being in class and about the teacher asking Muslim children to leave when he showed the images.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says 76 mosques out of more than 2,600 Muslim places of worship have been flagged as possible threats to French values and security.
The charges take the total number of people investigated over the murder to 14.
Emmanual Macron doubles down and pressures newspapers abroad, and Muslims at home, to buy into his narrative of secularism.
Putting their differences aside, most of the Muslim world has come together to protest anti-Muslim bigotry in France.
The French government's policy of 'deradicalisation' is sowing the seeds of hatred in wider French society, as the country's Muslims have become usual suspects.
Police have carried out dozens of raids since the crime, while the government has ordered the six-month closure of a mosque outside Paris, and dissolved the Sheikh Yassin Collective, a group they say support Hamas.
France's anti-terror prosecutor said the teacher beheaded outside his school in a Paris suburb was killed after becoming the target of an angry campaign on social media.
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