A controversial speech because it was being viewed by a by many as being patronized towards muslims but mach one also under pressure because he faces reelection in 2022 and he was under pressure from the right for not being seen to be doing enough to tackle terrorism in france and this was seen as an attempt by mccrone to pin his colors to the mast to say that he was tackling this issue in france Marine Le Pen from the far right is expected again to be running off against makana in those 2022 president ial elections hence this push towards the right but today frances council for muslim faith after this attack in is in nice it is says it strongly condemns the attack and it says that as a sign of mourning and solidarity with the victims and their loved ones the representative said i call on all muslims and friends. To council all the celebrations of the holiday of mollett this is the holiday the celebrations today to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad so again mainstream muslims i
Attack that happened today 3 people have been killed what more can you tell us baronets. Information on this attack is still coming in it happened now just 3 hours ago local time happened at 9 oclock or just before 9 oclock in the local time when there tucker we understand and to church in the center of nice armed with a knife he attacked people in the Church Killing 3 people one woman was decapitated one of the victims according to the mayor christian strohs either says one of the teens appears to been the churchwarden the man says the attacker was shouting allah akbar during the attack and during the attempt by police to arrest him he was shot during that. Time by the police he survived and is being treated in hospital other people were also injured in the attack now we are being told that french president money or macron is heading down to nice to the scene of this attack the church in the center of nice on the southern french coast the area around it has been sealed off by armed po
A cracked and what he describes as islamofascism. Walking foot which we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side i want to say that we can no longer with the laws of peace in our country wipe out islamofascism francis Prime Minister addressed the National Assembly in paris where he said the alert level has been raised a lot i pause the response of the government will be firm and immediate i have already decided to raise the attack level to urgent in the entire National Territory. As smyth has more from paris. The Security Services have been also alerted to make sure that places of worship are monitored and protected by places of worship we mean churches synagogues and mosques so there has been alert to go out for those as well but. Obviously the government fears that there are risks of more attacks and we often hear them tell us that they stop many more t