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The French Interior Ministry said today, Saturday, that security forces are dealing with a “serious accident” in Lyon, while several sources confirmed that a priest had been shot.
The Interior Ministry said, in a brief statement via “Twitter”, that security forces and ambulance units had been deployed in the Jan Masi area in the seven billion district, due to a “serious accident”.
The Ministry stated that a security cordon had been imposed around the accident site, and asked that they refrain from visiting this area for the time being.
Meanwhile, police sources told various media outlets that a 52-year-old Orthodox priest was injured in a shooting in the city while the attacker managed to flee.
A source told “Reuters” that the priest was shot twice around 4:00 p.m. local time, while closing the Greek Orthodox church, and received first aid at the scene for serious, life-threatening injuries and was still in critical condition. .
He explained that the priest is Greek, and was able to inform emergency services upon arrival that he did not recognize the attacker.
France attacks
France recently witnessed a series of attacks in the context of the issue of insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which was published in the newspaper “Charlie Hebdo”.
In early September, the French daily “Charlie Hebdo” reissued the drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, who in January 2015 triggered a terrorist attack at his Paris headquarters that killed 12 people and unleashed a wave of anger in the Islamic world.
On October 16, a young man of Chechen origin named Abdullah Anzurov (18 years old), history teacher, Samuel Patty, (47), was murdered in front of a preparatory school in the Conflans-Saint-Honorine suburb north of Paris, where He was beheaded with a knife and tried to threaten the police who arrived at the scene and killed the attacker with bullets.
Various sources said the attack came after the teacher showed his students insulting drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, while eyewitnesses reported that the attacker chanted “God is great” after killing Patty.
In the context of these developments, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech in which he described Bate as the “face of the republic”, promising that “France would not abandon cartoons”, while describing Muslims in France. as “separatists” directing new measures to prevent the spread of “extremism among Muslims.” ” in the country.
On October 29, a man armed with a knife launched an attack in front of the Notre Dame church in Nice, France, killing 3 people, including an elderly woman who was beheaded.
The attacker was taken to hospital after being shot by the police, while eyewitnesses reported that he kept repeating “God is great” all the way, and the authorities claimed that the perpetrator of the attack was a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant, whose name was Ibrahim Al-Ouesawi, while the attack was listed as a terrorist. .
In recent days, security services announced that they had thwarted several other attacks in the country.
Source: Agencies RT +
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