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Visiting the scene of the murder near Paris, the president said the attack should not  divide France because that is what terrorists wanted.

The victim in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine was a teacher who is said to have shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.

In addition to curfews in the nine Covid-19 hotspots, nighttime festivities have been banned across France.

The searches are part of an investigation into the government response to the global coronavirus pandemic, and included the offices of the current health minister Olivier Veran.

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza grabbed a 19th Century Chadian wooden funerary post from the Quai Branly museum in June in a protest that was live-streamed.

French president Emmanuel Macron has announced a late night curfew for residents in Paris, Marseille and seven other cities: Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Rouen, Saint-Etienne and Toulouse, covering 19 million people. The government also moved to reinstate its COVID-19 state of health emergency.

With less than three months to go until Britain leaves the EU single market, fishing has become a key sticking point in negotiating a trade deal to replace it - with France fearing it could suffer badly.

Jean Castex's warning came asFrench  health authorities reported about 43,000 new coronavirus infections over the weekend. 

Two police officers were on a cigarette break outside the station in Champigny-sur-Marne when the assailants armed with fireworks and metal rods suddenly converged on them shortly before midnight.

Montpellier and Toulouse have joined Paris and Marseille and four other cities in the maximum alert status to fight back the coronavirus.