A terrorist attack on a church in Nice two days ago, it is not known if the two cases have anything to do with each other. President Macron dismissed the violence in a statement to al-Jazeera.

An Orthodox priest has been wounded in Lyon with a firearm, the author is still being processed by the police in the French city, reports Le Figaro, citing a police source.

The attack took place around four in the afternoon, when the priest closed the Greek Orthodox church in the city’s seventh district, reportedly a 52-year-old Greek national priest was seriously injured, with bullets in the belly. The site was closed.

Two days ago, an attack was carried out on a church in Nice, where a killer with a knife killed three people. On October 16, he also ended up in Paris with a knife with a master assailant Samuel Paty. The background to the anti-Christian attacks is the fact that a terrorist attack is taking place on the Mohamed cartoons in France, and Paty has done so by presenting these drawings to her students to talk about freedom of expression.

French head of state Emmanuel Macron said in a statement to Al Jazirah on Saturday, where he said he understands that the cartoons are shocking to certain people, but that this does not justify violence.



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