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France’s Foreign Ministry said on the day that “a priest bomb attack occurred during an annual event commemorating the end of World War I at a non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah this morning,” AFP said. Saying.
The event was organized by the French Embassy in Saudi Arabia, and diplomats from Great Britain, France and Greece are known to have attended.
The French Foreign Ministry stressed that “France strongly condemns this cowardly and unjust attack.”
Reuters quoted a Greek government official as saying that four people were slightly injured in an explosion in Jeddah and one of the injuries was Greek.
In addition, Saudi authorities said that two people were injured, an employee of the Greek embassy and a Saudi security guard.
According to the British outlet Daily Mail, Saudi police arrested a man who dropped a bomb at the scene, and the incident is presumed to be terrorism and is being investigated.
The identity of the suspects or victims is unknown.
Following the incident, the French Embassy in France asked its citizens staying in Saudi Arabia to pay attention to personal safety.
In Jeddah, an alleged terrorist incident occurred in about two weeks.
On the 29th of last month, a Saudi man was arrested for stabbing a security guard with a weapon at the French consulate in Jeddah.
Furthermore, the bomb explosion occurred in recent years as tensions continued in France and Islamic countries.
A French high school teacher, who previously gave a discussion class on freedom of expression based on a cartoon based on the Islamic prophet Muhammad as the subject, was killed on 16 last month by an 18-year-old who fell into Islamic extremism. .
French President Emmanuel Macron defended that the satire against Muhammad belongs to freedom of expression, but Islamic countries protested that it was blasphemy.
Even in Saudi Arabia, which claims to be an Islamic endemic country, antipathy against France has grown.
Since then, the terrors of those affected by Islamic extremism have occurred one after another in Europe.
On the 29th of last month, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Nice, southern France, a Tunisian was holding a gun and three citizens were killed.
On the 2nd of this month, 4 citizens were killed and 20 injured in a shooting attack in the city center of Vienna, Austria.
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