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France's Macron to Muslims: I hear your anger, but

won't accept violence
Reuters Last Updated: Nov 01, 2020, 10:16 AM IST
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An assailant shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two
other people in a church in Nice on Thursday, in France's second deadly knife attack in
two weeks with a suspected Islamist motive.

AFP
PARIS: French President Emmanuel
Macron said on Saturday he respected
Muslims who were shocked by
cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad
but that was no excuse for violence, as
his o icials ramped up security after a
knife attack in a French church that
The suspected assailant, a 21-year-old from
killed three people this week.
Tunisia, was shot by police and is now in critical
condition in a hospital.
An assailant shouting "Allahu Akbar"
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(God is Greatest) beheaded a woman
Orthodox priest wounded in shooting in
France's Lyon, attacker ees: Police and killed two other people in a
church in Nice on Thursday, in
France seeks to uncover links of Tunisian
suspected of killing 3 in Nice church France's second deadly knife attack in
attack
two weeks with a suspected Islamist
New arrest after France church attack, motive.
security tightened

The suspected assailant, a 21-year-old

from Tunisia, was shot by police and is now in critical condition in a hospital.

Police said on Saturday that another person was taken into custody in
connection with the attack. That person joins three others already in custody
on suspicion of contacts with the attacker.

Macron has deployed thousands of soldiers to protect sites such as places of

worship and schools, and ministers have warned that other Islamist militant
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The Nice attack, on the day Muslims celebrated the Prophet Mohammad's Covid

birthday, came amid growing Muslim anger across the world over France's
defence of the right to publish cartoons depicting the Prophet.
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On Oct. 16, Samuel Paty, a school teacher in a Paris suburb, was beheaded by
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a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in class during a civics lesson. AP explains: Why does France spark such anger in
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Protesters have denounced France in street rallies in several Muslim-majority Tens of thousands of Muslims protest over Macron
remarks after killings in France
countries, and some have called for boycotts of French goods.
Muslim sta ers at Facebook call for transparency
in enforcing policies
France, on edge in anticipation of more possible attacks, was jolted on Biden vows to repeal 'Muslim ban' imposed by
Trump admin if elected
Saturday evening when a Greek Orthodox priest was shot and wounded in his
China announces new rules for Muslims visiting
church in the south-eastern city of Lyon. But o icials gave no indication that Saudi Arabia for Haj
terrorism was suspected.

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In it, he said France would not back down in the face of violence and would
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defend the right to free expression, including the publication of cartoons.
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But he stressed that did not mean he or his o icials supported the cartoons,
which Muslims consider blasphemous, or that France was in any way anti-
Muslim.

"So I understand and respect that people could be shocked by these cartoons,
but I will never accept that one can justify physical violence over these
cartoons, and I will always defend the freedom in my country to write, to
think, to draw," Macron said, according to an interview transcript released by
his o ice.

"My role is to calm things down, which is what I'm doing, but at the same
time, it's to protect these rights."

SUSPECT'S JOURNEY
France's chief anti-terrorism prosecutor has said the man suspected of
carrying out the Nice attack was a Tunisian born in 1999 who had arrived in
Europe on Sept. 20 in Lampedusa, the Italian island o Tunisia.

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Prosecutors in the Sicilian city of Palermo, in Italy, are investigating the

man's subsequent passage through the island, including the people he might
have been in touch with there, and are requisitioning phone records, judicial
sources told Reuters.

Investigators are looking into the possibility that the suspect arrived in the
Italian city of Bari in early October, on a ship used to quarantine migrants,
before leaving for Palermo, the sources said.

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12 COMMENTS ON THIS STORY

NS Iyer 6 hours ago

Why the attacker is in Hospital he should be cut to pieces in public

ZEN DAHODI 8 hours ago

Did Macron will allow writing and discussing of Holocaust in his country? If
answer is Yes; I will salute him but if No; I will consider him a coward.

Habibur Rehman 8 hours ago

There is no other way but peace is directly related to justice, now or tomorrow.

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