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.
> French people just need to fight back... <
Im told that France has relatively reasonable gun laws (for a European country). So a good place to start would be to liberalize those laws. Perhaps an Islamist would think twice about attacking an innocent if he thought that guy sitting on a bench might be armed.
An if the Islamist did attack anyway, maybe that guy could keep the victim count at one.
But given this is Western Europe, yeah, Im just dreaming.
Yep. The horrible part is those who would leave France are these bobo leftist secularists who have international globalist positions... and they influence the US to the left more than the Russians do, imo.
UNDER SIEGE France hit by 2 terror attacks as man & woman beheaded in Nice church & separate knifeman shouting Allahu Akbar shot
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6214018/france-terror-attack-nice-church-beheaded/
Political class has blood on thier hands. They allowed this to happen. Police killed in the riots and the elderly deliberately killed here in nursing homes and hospitals are also victims of these political scumbags. They need to be brought to justice for thier arrogance and irresponsibility, they are not above the law especially if they are suppose to uphold the laws
> Macron has really pissed off the muzzies lately. <
Macron is surprising me on the up-side. Now, does he have the courage to take the next step, and go all medieval on the Islamists? That would mean shutting down the radical mosques, deporting all illegals, restoring control in the no-go zones, allowing French civilians to arm themselves, etc.
I doubt it. But we shall see. In the meantime it sure would be nice if the rest of the EU leaders woke up, and stood with Macron.
The Trump Effect.
Snipped from Wikipedia. Notice that before Dahmer the last beheading in the U.S. was in 1936. After Dahmer see who did all or most of the beheadings.
Captain Harry Miller (1936) beheaded after murder near New Trenton, Indiana, “Head and Hands” murder[35]
16 victims of Jeffrey Dahmer (19781991)
Christa Hoyt (1990) decapitated by serial killer Danny Rolling
Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton (1995) decapitated and dismembered by Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal members of the infamous Sun Gym gang in Miami[36]
Aasiya Zubair (2009) decapitated in New York by murderer/husband Muzzammil Hassan
Hanny Tawadros and Amgad Konds (2013) decapitated posthumously, allegedly by murderer Yusef Ibrahim[37]
Colleen Hufford (2014) 54-year-old woman was decapitated in Oklahoma by a 30-year-old pro-Jihad, Islamist, Jah’Keem Yisrael, formerly Alton Alexander Nolen.
Mostly a peaceful attack?
It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the Nice attack.
Great reporting Rueters!
Media is more harmful and a much bigger threat than even radical mooslims. Reuters and their ilk need to go.
So dilute your culture with hateful people, gee I never saw this coming...
Says it all — right there.
My goodness the French are racist!
/sarcasm
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BREAKING: There has been a knife attack near a church in the city of Nice, France
They didn’t just “allow” it to happen. They freaking engineered it and created it and are personally responsible for each and every atrocity, death, arson, rape, and assault on regular Europeans.
Personally responsible. They knew what they were doing.
Mad Erdog is also highly responsible and it’s a shame he’s still taking up valuable oxygen.
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