LONDON - French police and members of the security services continue to raid the homes of suspected radicals and offices of alleged Islamic fundamentalist organisations following the beheading of a French school teacher who showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.

And as French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has pointed out, the approximately 40 separate raids already executed are likely to be continued and expanded to a larger circle of people or organisations who may have expressed sympathy for the teacher's murder or offered justifications for the crime.