Knife attack in Nice, France: “We are at war against Islamic ideology” by the Minister of the Interior

“We are at war against Islamist ideology,” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Friday after the knife attack that killed three people in Nice, France, saying more attacks are likely to take place in the country. .

Three people, two of them women, were stabbed to death yesterday in the Notre-Dame church. Police shot the suspect, Brahim Aioussaoi, 21, after the attack, which included injuries. It was revealed that the condition of the suspect, who was taken to hospital, was serious.

It was alleged that Aioussaoi brought takbir during the attack and tried to behead one of the people he killed.

Minister Darmanin told French radio RTL: “We are at war against an enemy, an ideology, both internal and external, because we are not fighting against a religion. We are at war against an ideology, the Islamist ideology.” an ideology that wants to impose animation through terror ”, he said.

Darmanin, “We have to understand that there are other incidents like these terrible attacks and they will happen,” he said.

After Professor Samuel Paty, who was telling his students about freedom of expression through cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, was beheaded on October 16, the homes of people believed to be linked to radical Islam in France were raided. and more than 50 associations and organizations were examined, some were closed.

French President Emmanuel Macron used the expression “Islamists will not be able to sleep in peace in France. Fear will change sides.”

It turned out that the murder of Samuel Paty was carried out by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee born in Moscow.

It was determined that Aioussaoi, who organized the attack in Nice, went to the island of Lampedusa in Italy last month with an immigrant boat, then entered France with a document given to him by the Italian Red Cross.

French prosecutors say Aioussaoi traveled from Italy to Nice by train.

Aioussaoi was carrying three knives, two telephones and a Koran, according to the prosecutors’ statement.

Detectives from France, Italy and Tunisia are jointly investigating the attack.

A Tunisian official said that Brahim Aioussaoi was not a suspected militant.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who went to Nice, used the phrase “Islamist terror attack” in connection with the incident.

Emmanuel Macron said that “France will not renounce its values ​​and will never surrender to terrorism.”

Macron also announced that the number of soldiers assigned to guard public places like churches and schools in France will increase from 3,000 to 7,000.

The national security alert level after the attack in France was raised to the highest level.

On the other hand, Turkey in Nice in Foreign Affairs condemned the attack with a written statement in its Ministry.

In the statement, “No reason can justify the murder of a person or justify violence. It is clear that those who organize such a brutal attack on a holy place of worship do not receive their share of religious, humanitarian and moral values.” We highlight our solidarity with the French people, especially with the inhabitants of the city, against terrorism and violence ”.

Meanwhile, there were two more attacks on Thursday, one in France and one in Saudi Arabia.

A person threatening the police with a pistol was shot and killed in the Montfavet area near Avignon in southern France.

A security guard was attacked outside the French consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. While the suspect was in custody, the security guard was hospitalized.

Two weeks ago in France, a teacher named Samuel Paty, who showed his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, was beheaded while talking about the specificity of the expression in class.