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“The latest attacks in France are already taking place on a large scale throughout the jihadist community,” the terrorist propaganda monitoring group said. online, SITE Intelligence Group. (Read: Three killed in attacks on the French Church, one beheaded victim)
SITE Intelligence Group director Rita Katz said jihadists who support ISIS were celebrating what they called “freedom of action.”
According to him, the new attacks in France come amid a large influx of jihadist media that condemn France and the cartoonists Charlie Hebdo.
Extremists linked to ISIS and al-Qaeda captured the moment of Samuel Paty’s beheading earlier this month to provoke further attacks against France. Paty is a history teacher who was beheaded by the Chehchen refugee on the outskirts of Paris on October 16 after presenting cartoons in which she insulted the Prophet Muhammad to her students during a class discussion about freedom of expression.
Katz said the “prospect of coordination” between the various attackers seemed increasingly plausible, though unconfirmed. (Read: Twitter removes Mahathir’s tweet ‘Muslims have the right to kill millions of French’)
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda publishes press releases calling for “jihad” or “holy war” on the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad from the French satire magazine; Charlie hebdo.
“Massive social media celebration for terrorism, where jihadists took to Twitter after the latest killings,” Katz said. Sun, Friday (10/30/2020).
On Thursday, a beheaded woman was among three people killed by a Tunisian migrant in a knife attack on the Bacisilia Notre-Dame church in Nice. There were also attacks in Avignon, but there were no reports of casualties.
Police sources named the suspect in the Nice attack as Brahim Aoussaoui, 21, a Tunisian who arrived in Europe a few weeks ago. (Also read: Khamenei: Macron is stupid, insulting the prophet Muhammad should be a crime in France)
French prosecutors said the attacker in Nice used a 12-inch knife to massacre three parishioners. The perpetrator is now in hospital with serious injuries after being shot by police.
It landed in late September on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where it was quarantined by authorities to prevent coronavirus, before finally arriving in France this month.
The first victim of the Nice attack was identified as Vincent Loquès, known as a church guard. Loquès, a father of two, is a 54-year-old sexton in the building, an officer assigned to lead the church.
The second victim, a 60-year-old woman, was found strangled and beheaded inside the church.
The third victim, a 44-year-old woman, fled the church at 8:54 a.m., but died in a nearby cafe from her injuries.
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