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“We are not going to compromise the values that make up France, in particular ‘the freedom to believe and not to believe,'” French President Emmanuel Macron said today, condemning the “Islamist terrorist attack” on a church in Nice. with three dead.
“If they are attacking us, it is because of our values,” Macron said after greeting the police officers who intervened to arrest the author of the Nice attack.
The French president called the country to “unity” and “not give in to any spirit of terror”, while announcing the deployment of 3,000-7,000 soldiers from Operation Sentinelle to protect places of worship in view of the feast of the Catholics, All Saints, next Sunday.
Troops will also be deployed to “protect schools” in view of their return next Monday from fall break, Macron said.
France has decided to maximize the country’s protection plan, called Vigipirate.
The French president went to Nice and to the site of the knife attack in Notre Dame and spoke with the police and soldiers.
The French head of state said he was conveying “the support of the entire nation to Catholics in France and elsewhere”, recalling the “murder of the priest (Jacques) Amel”, who was massacred inside his church in Saint-Etienne -di Rouvre, near Rouen. , in the summer of 2016.
“The whole country supports them and will be there so that we can continue to practice religion freely in our country,” he said.
“It is very clear that France is under attack,” Emanuel Macron said, adding that “at the same time, a French consulate in Jeddah was attacked and arrests were made on our territory.”
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
