A Moroccan man was arrested in Barcelona for praising the beheading of a French schoolteacher outside Paris this month and inciting more attacks, police said on Saturday. The man, who was not named and who was detained on Friday, posted messages on social media in support of the October 16 murder of Samuel Paty, Catalan regional police said.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Paty was killed outside his school in a Paris suburb by an 18-year-old Chechen who was apparently incensed by the teacher showing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in class. Police shot the attacker dead. "Police officers from the Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a man of Moroccan nationality, for an alleged crime of exaltation of terrorism and a crime of incitement to commit terrorist crimes," Catalan police tweeted. The suspect appeared before a court in Barcelona on Saturday and was released on condition he surrender his passport and appear before magistrates every 14 days, police said. An attacker killed three people in a church in Nice on Thursday in the second deadly knife attack in France in two weeks. Three people have been taken into custody. The attacks came amid growing Muslim anger across the world over France's defense of the right to publish cartoons depicting the prophet. French President Emmanuel Macron has deployed thousands of soldiers to protect sites such as places of worship and schools, and ministers have warned that other Islamist militant attacks could take place. Police will guard French schools in the Spanish region of Catalonia from next week.Read more:Belgian teacher suspended for showing cartoon of Prophet MohammedPakistan’s police fire teargas at demonstrators protesting French cartoons of ProphetThousands rally in Jerusalem against France’s Macron over the Prophet cartoonsClashes at Lebanon’s capital Beirut as people protest French cartoons of the ProphetDenmark’s far-right party launches campaign to republish cartoons of Prophet MohammedFrance’s Macron vows country will not yield after ‘Islamist terrorist attack’ in NiceTrump on attack in France: ‘Radical Islamic terrorist attacks’ must stop immediately
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Spain’s police arrest a Moroccan man for praising teacher beheading in France
