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French police have raided the homes of dozens of suspected Islamic radicals following the beheading of a teacher who showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils.

Some of those being questioned are believed to have posted messages of support for the killer of Samuel Paty. The government also said it was investigating 51 French Muslim associations.

Mr Paty’s suspected killer was shot dead by police on Friday.

On Monday, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the operations sent a message that there was «no respite for enemies of the republic», and that they were expected to continue all week. He said that not all individuals targeted in the operations were necessarily linked to the investigations into Mr Paty’s death.

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The teacher who was beheaded in a street in France had received threats after showing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils, French media report.

Nine people have been arrested, including the parents of a child at the school where the teacher was working, judicial sources are quoted as saying.

The attacker was shot dead by police near the scene of Friday’s killing.

Police say the attacker was an 18-year-old man of Chechen origin.

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A man has been arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of terror-related offences.

The Metropolitan Police said the 22-year-old was stopped at the Essex airport on Monday at about 17:30 BST. He was arrested on suspicion of encouraging terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications and taken to a London police station.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court granted permission for him to be detained until Monday.

On Wednesday, he was arrested again on suspicion of collecting information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Magistrates granted a warrant for detention relating to the inquiry into all the suspected offences.

Prison staff guarding extremist offenders are under «constant threat» from inmates who intend to «behead a guard and stream it online», the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said.

Last week two men were convicted of trying to murder an officer at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire. POA chairman Mark Fairhurst said the threat posed had never been greater.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said measures had been stepped up to «stop the spread of poisonous ideologies».

In January, Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and Baz Hockton, 26, armed with makeshift bladed weapons, tried to murder prison officer, Neil Trundle, at the maximum security jail.

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Britain is facing a «nasty mix» of national security threats, from hostile state activity by Russia and China to fast-growing right-wing terrorism, the new director general of MI5 has said.

Ken McCallum said terrorism remains the biggest threat — with Northern Irish and Islamist extremism also a concern.

The Covid lockdown raised the risk of online contact between groups, and made covert surveillance harder, he added. Mr McCallum was speaking at his first media briefing as head of the service.And while he wears almost exactly the same spectacles as his predecessor, Andrew Parker, that is where the similarity ends.

The new man at the top of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency since April is a slim, youthful Glaswegian mathematician by training. He likes hiking up mountains when his parenting and work allows.

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