France, Oct. 21 -- A French regional newspaper has filed a complaint over threats received on social media after publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on its front page during coverage of the beheading of a teacher near Paris.

The complaint was filed due to comments on a Facebook account of regional newspaper La Nouvelle Republique, after it republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed from satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Sunday.

Two days earlier, teacher Samuel Paty was attacked and beheaded in apparent retaliation to a lesson in early October, in which Paty showed the cartoons to 13-year-olds as part of a class on moral and civic education in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, north-west of Paris.

"It was not meant as a provocation, ...