[ad_1]
After the knife attack allegedly motivated by Islamists that left three dead in Nice, police detained another suspect.. The 47-year-old man is suspected of having been in contact with the alleged perpetrator the day before the crime, he said Friday from French judicial circles. The Nice-Matin newspaper had already reported on the arrest.
In which Attack Thursday morning on the Notre-Dame basilica first a man and a woman were brutally murdered; An injured woman was initially able to flee to a bar, but died there from her injuries.
Author
According to investigators, the alleged perpetrator is a 21-year-old Tunisian named Brahim Aouissaoui.. He had recently entered France from Italy. According to the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, the attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) several times before the police shot him and injured him. In France, the antiterrorist prosecutor is investigating the case.
The minister fears more incidents
One day after the beheading of a woman and the murder of two other people in a church in Nice, the French government fears further attacks of this type.. France is in a “war against Islamist ideology,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told RTL radio station on Friday. Therefore, there will be more incidents like “these terrible attacks”.
France warns its citizens around the world
After the alleged Islamist attack in Nice with three dead France warns its citizens of attacks around the world: “The threat is everywhere”, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday after a security cabinet meeting chaired by President Emmanuel Macron. The attack was preceded by massive threats and protests against France in Muslim countries.
“The step from virtual hatred to actual violence is small,” Le Drian said. Paris had instructed diplomatic missions abroad to strengthen security measures. Just on Thursday, Malaysia’s former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, called it legitimate “to kill millions of French people.” He justified it with the French “massacres” of the colonial era. Under pressure from the French government, Twitter deleted Mohamad’s short messages.
At home, France wants to better protect schools and churches in particular, as Defense Secretary Florence Parly said after the crisis meeting. According to the Interior Ministry, 3,500 reserve police are being mobilized for this purpose. An additional 120 policemen are said to patrol Nice alone. President Macron had previously announced that the army’s counterterrorism force would increase from 3,000 to 7,000. The highest level of terrorism warning has been in effect across France since the knife attack in Nice on Thursday.
Supreme of France Counter-terrorism investigator Francois Ricard It said Thursday’s alleged perpetrator, a Tunisian born in 1999, arrived in Europe on September 20 on the Italian island of Lampedusa. According to reports from the Italian agency, he disembarked with other immigrants by boat and was taken to Bari, the capital of Apulia, in southern Italy, in October. There it should have gone underground.
Ricard also announced that the alleged perpetrator arrived in Nice by train on Thursday morning and then made his way to the church. There he beheaded a 60-year-old woman and stabbed the 55-year-old sexton. He also stabbed a 44-year-old woman who was able to flee to a nearby cafe and raise the alarm before she died. When the police arrived at the scene, the attacker kept shouting “Allahu Akbar”. The man was shot by police and taken to hospital. He is in critical condition.
Investigations in Tunisia
Tunisia said the man was not known there as a suspected extremist. Tunisian authorities are also investigating the suspect. Under the country’s law, every Tunisian who is involved in acts of terrorism, whether at home or abroad, said a Tunisian judicial spokesman on Thursday evening. The objective is to determine if the perpetrator may have had accomplices in Tunisia.
According to the Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, the suspect comes from a city near the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax. The mother told the station that her son called her that week and said he had traveled to France. She knew nothing of his plans. The alleged attacker’s brother told the station that he had said he wanted to spend the night in front of the church. He also sent her a photo from there.
The attack in Nice occurred on the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday and less than two weeks after a teacher was beheaded. Samuel Paty, 47, was killed in a Paris suburb by a suspected Islamist of Chechen origin on the street. In class on the subject of freedom of expression, the teacher had shown controversial cartoons of Muhammad. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told France Inter on Friday: “I don’t like these cartoons.” But defend the right to publish them.
Following the beheading of the teacher, President Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to fight “Islamist separatism” that threatened to take control of some Muslim communities in France. On Thursday he said in Nice that France had been attacked for its values and its love of freedom. The president stressed that he will defend his position and will not give in.
Tens of thousands protested against Macron in Bangladesh
There have recently been demonstrations against Macron in several predominantly Muslim countries. Tens of thousands took to the streets in Bangladesh on Friday. They called for a boycott of French products and carried banners calling Macron “the greatest terrorist in the world.” In Europe, France is the country with the largest Muslim community.
“We are in a war against an enemy who is both inside and outside,” Interior Minister Darmanin said. In connection with the crime in Nice, according to judicial circles, a 47-year-old man was arrested Thursday night. He is suspected of having had contact with the alleged perpetrator. France has declared the highest level of security and Macron has assigned thousands of soldiers to guard churches, other religious houses and schools.
Several people gathered in front of the church in Nice, laid flowers and lit candles. Frederic Lefevre, 50, complained that another tragedy had broken out in his hometown. Four years ago in Nice, an extremist drove a truck into a crowd on the French national holiday, July 14. There were 86 deaths.
In Austria, however, the leader of the federal FPÖ party Norbert Hofer called for a rethinking at the European and national level: “A Europe without borders was an illusion because the EU failed so grandly to protect its external borders. Therefore, member states must now rigorously control their borders to stop murderers and prevent abuse of asylum. “
A knife attack in the southern French coastal city of Nice left three dead and six wounded.
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
According to police circles, a woman was probably beheaded, the Paris anti-terrorist prosecutor took over the investigation.
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
According to the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, the alleged perpetrator is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great).
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
The man was shot and arrested.
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
Estrosi tweeted that the act was like a terrorist attack. It “certainly” fits in with the Islamist killing of history professor Samuel Paty a few days ago.
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
Click on the other images …
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
(c) AFP (VALERY HACHE)
(c) AP (Alexis Gilli)
Italy’s judiciary is investigating terrorism
The prosecutor’s office for the city of Bari, in southern Italy, said it also launched investigations against the alleged attacker in Nice on Friday.. The suspicion against the 21-year-old Tunisian is terrorism.
The killer, who arrived in Lampedusa with other migrants by boat on September 20, spent a two-week quarantine on board a ship and was later housed in a refugee facility in Bari. Then he hid.
Bari judicial authorities are also investigating the deportation notice that was sent to the Tunisian, as Italian media reported on Friday, citing the prosecution. Consequently, he was asked to leave Italy within seven days. Tunisian authorities had not warned Italy about him, he said.
Italian Interior Minister under attack
After the brutal knife attack in the metropolis of Nice in southern France, the Italian government is under pressure. Since the alleged perpetrator is said to be a Tunisian who arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in September, Right-wing parties criticize the government’s immigration policy of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and ask the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese for an explanation.
Italy has become a “route of terror”, he criticized the right-wing party “Fratelli d Italia” (FdI – Brothers of Italy). “The Conte government has to explain how it is possible for a fundamentalist to reach Lampedusa undisturbed and travel to France,” said FdI chief Giorgia Meloni, who has always criticized the immigration policy of the government of the Social Democrats and the Five Star Movement. The Italian government must apologize to France for not arresting the Tunisian attacker, demanded Meloni, and demanded that the interior minister report the case to parliament.
The head of the Lega, Matteo Salvini, requested the resignation of the Minister of the Interior. He criticized the Conte government for repealing the strict immigration laws that his party had enforced in parliament during his 2018 and 2019 presidency. The immigration laws were a protection against the “free entry” of illegal immigrants to Italy. The Lega also asked Prime Minister Conte to apologize to France for the knife attack.
“How is it possible that a migrant who arrived in Italy during the pandemic could have reached France undisturbed, where he was responsible for a bloodbath? The Italian government has a clear political responsibility here that cannot be kept secret” Anna Maria protested. Bernini, a senator from former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing conservative Forza Italia.
The right-wing parties are calling once again for a change of course in immigration policy. Despite the pandemic, 27,190 migrants arrived in Italy this year after traveling by sea across the Mediterranean. In the same period of 2019, it was 9,533. This year, the number of Tunisians arriving, who have little chance of asylum in Italy, has increased.
The Interior Ministry in Rome announced late Thursday that the 21-year-old Tunisian attacker arrived illegally on the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on September 20. After a two-week quarantine aboard a ship off Lampedusa, he was taken to the southern Italian city of Bari in October. There it should be submerged.
