In the southern French coastal city of Nice, the three people who died in the Islamist attack were commemorated in a church around a week ago. France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex also used the memorial event to declare war on Islamist extremism. The government will „fight tirelessly“ against radical Islam, said Castex.
„We know the enemy,“ Castex said in a speech at the ceremony. „It is not only identified, it also has a name: it is radical Islam, a political ideology that disfigures the Muslim religion.“ For the fight against „the enemy“ the government will provide the necessary means every day mobilize all their forces.
On October 29, a man from Tunisia beheaded a woman in a church and killed two other people with a knife. He shouted „Alluha Akbar“ (Allah is great). The man was shot by police and taken to a hospital. He is still in critical condition. The Nice attack followed the beheading of a teacher in a suburb of Paris on October 16. The alleged perpetrator was a man from Chechnya who killed the teacher because he had shown caricatures of Mohammed in class.
