https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-nice/three-dead-as-woman-behe...



By Eric Gaillard

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NICE, France (Reuters) - A woman was beheaded by an attacker with a knife who also killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police said, in an incident the city’s mayor described as terrorism.

Mayor Christian Estrosi said on Twitter the knife attack had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker.

Police said three people were confirmed to have died in the attack and several were injured.

A police source said a woman was decapitated. French politician Marine Le Pen also spoke of a decapitation having occurred in the attack.

The French anti-terrorist prosecutor’s department said it had been asked to investigate the attack.

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.

The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty in Paris by a man of Chechen origin.


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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.

Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Giles Elgood

3 dead now

I think France is finally fed up with this.

If I was Macron I'd get a new law passed, I'd call it the 10000:1 law.

For every French citizen killed in a terror attack, 10000 Muslims are deported whence they came.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/fatal-knife-attack-in-french-city-of-nice-de...

Bobby. wrote on Oct 29^th, 2020 at 8:00pm:


We imported headchoppers here too.

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/nice-knife-attack-dle-intl/index.html



2 min ago
BREAKING: mayor says

From CNN's Gaëlle Fournier in Paris

Three people are now confirmed dead – including one woman who was decapitated – following a terror attack in the French city of Nice, the mayor Christian Estrosi has said.

“It seems that, according to the first findings of the police, the woman who was inside the church has been decapitated. For the other victims, we cannot say anything at the moment,” he told BFM TV.




19 min ago
Macron to travel to Nice later on Thursday

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Nice on Thursday after participating in a crisis meeting at the Interior Ministry, the Elysee Palace has said.

The country's Prime Minister Jean Castex led lawmakers in a moment of silence at the National Assembly on Thursday morning after news of the incident broke.

Gordon wrote on Oct 29^th, 2020 at 8:17pm:



But it does say -

The man suspected of carrying out the fatal knife attack kept shouting

even after he had been arrested by police, Mr Estrosi told reporters.

Expect more platitudes from the French government about how they will never defeat us. The fact of the matter is that they, the government, are cowards, but we always knew that. There will be a tipping point in France, probably when Muzlums reach around 25%. The atrocities will increase exponentially, and a few people will fight back, but the government will blame them.

issuevoter wrote on Oct 29^th, 2020 at 8:28pm:


Actually, IV, after the last one Macron has said some positive things. There have been protests with people holding MoMo cartoons in solidarity with the teacher.

He won't be tough enough.

They need to deport 10000 Muslims for every act of terror.