After the brutal killing of three individuals at the church in Nice, the France has raised its highest level of alert to national security. The French President Emmanuel Macron termed the barbaric act an “Islamist terrorist attack”. After his visit to the Notre-Dame basilica in the southern city, he said that France would not surrender to its core values.
In this incident an elderly victim was ‘virtually beheaded’ while another woman and a man also died. Christian Estrosi the Mayor of Nice termed “Islamo-facism” and said that the suspect was endlessly repeating ‘Allahu Akbar’. Later on, the male suspect was shot and detained by the security officials.
On the same day two other attacks probably by the same ideological suspects took place, one in Montfavet near southern French city of Avigon and the other was in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia outside the French consulate.
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