Posted on 10/29/2020 4:48:11 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A knife-wielding attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar" beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist incident at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police and officials said. Nice's mayor, Christian Estrosi, who described the attack as terrorism, said on Twitter it had happened in or near the city's Notre Dame church.
Estrosi said the attacker had repeatedly shouted the phrase "Allahu Akbar," or God is greatest, even after he had been detained by police.
One of the people killed inside the church was believed to be the church warden, Estrosi said, adding that a woman had tried to escape from inside the church and had fled into a bar opposite the building. "The suspected knife attacker was shot by police while being detained, he is on his way to hospital, he is alive," Estrosi told reporters. "Enough is enough," Estrosi said. "It's time now for France to exonerate itself from the laws of peace in order to definitively wipe out Islamo-fascism from our territory."
Reuters journalists at the scene said police armed with automatic weapons had put up a security cordon around the church, which is on Nice's Jean Medecin avenue, the city's main shopping thoroughfare. Ambulances and fire service vehicles were also at the scene. French President Emmanuel Macron is due to visit Nice, Estrosi said.
In Paris, lawmakers in the National Assembly observed a minute's silence in solidarity with the victims. Police said three people were confirmed to have died in the attack and several were injured. The French anti-terrorist prosecutor's department said it had been asked to investigate.
A police source said a woman was decapitated. French politician Marine Le Pen also spoke of a decapitation having occurred in the attack. Estrosi said the victims had been killed in a "horrible way."
"The methods match, without doubt, those used against the brave teacher in Conflans Sainte Honorine, Samuel Paty," he said, referring to a French teacher beheaded earlier this month in an attack in a suburb of Paris.
French assemblyman Meyer Habib reacted to the attack on Twitter, saying that, "even during a state of emergency in France because of the coronavirus, coward islamists are slaughtering and beheading women in a church in the French city of Nice, "they are corrupting France's face. We're at war!"
Following the horrific murder that took place in Nice, Miriam Feierberg, Mayor of the city of Netanya - Nice twin city - spoke with Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi, and expressed her pain and condolences on behalf of the city of Netanya over the stabbing attack that took place this morning.
In response, Estrosi told Fairberg, "We are one family." As a sign of sympathy, Fairberg instructed to hoist the French flags on the city bridges.
The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of middle school teacher Paty by a man of Chechen origin.
The attacker had said he wanted to punish Paty for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics lesson.
It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the Nice attack, or if there was any connection to the cartoons, which Muslims consider to be blasphemous. Since Paty's killing, French officials - backed by many ordinary citizens - have re-asserted the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely displayed at marches in solidarity with the killed teacher.
That has prompted an outpouring of anger in parts of the Muslim world, with some governments accusing French leader Emmanuel Macron of pursuing an anti-Islam agenda.
Per FOX news...the motive is still unknown.
France is like Egypt now. Christians are going to leave or what not. Wtf. But where too?
Deport all of those not citizens. It’s a start . The Frogs are in a bad way now. This is coming to America, if we don’t put the lid on now!!!
Islam is a war plan.
>> Christians are going to leave or ...
Christians must eviscerate the secularists currently in control.
Biden wants to flood the country with these people
Unless France and other western nations recognize that an integral part of the creed of Islam is to kill infidels, then they are lost.
/sarc
The only way to stop Islam is getting rid of its followers.
Deport or exterminate, your choice.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad
@chedetofficial
Replying to
@chedetofficial
12. Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.
6:47 AM · Oct 29, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Perhaps it’s time for the Legion to take a stroll through the Muslim “no-go” neighborhoods.
“suspected terrorist event” says Reuters.
“Allahu Akbar” says the “suspected terrorist” as he cuts off a woman’s head.
What does it take for Reuters to get a clue?
Lord I had the media. All of them. Everywhere.
A mostly peaceful beheading?
Let’s not get crazy. French people just need to fight back against people that don’t belong there and kick them the *** out.
When the pro killer starts to lose their mothers and fathers they will change their minds
COEXIST
That would be 1 man and 1 woman both beheaded inside the church. The 3rd woman died of her injuries in a tavern across the street a few minutes later.
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