France shuts Paris mosque in crackdown after teacher's beheading

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France ordered the temporary closure of a mosque outside Paris on Tuesday part of a crackdown on Muslims who incite hatred after the decapitation of a teacher who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Police plastered notices of the closure order outside the mosque as the authorities promised a tough response against the disseminators of hate messages, preachers of radicalised sermons and foreigners believed to pose a security threat to France. The six-month order was for the sole purpose of preventing acts of terrorism, the notice issued by the head of the Seine-Saint-Denis department read.

Calls by Reuters to the mosque on Tuesday went unanswered. The mosque said in a statement published on Facebook on Monday, there's no room for violence in our religion. We strongly condemn this savagery. One Pantin resident, who gave her name as Maya and said her husband prayed at the mosque called the closure sad for our community.