There is no end to the terror that is islam.
Quote: Shocked France to guard churches
PARIS
THE French government vowed to send thousands more police onto the streets to ensure security as investigators sought to uncover what motivated a young Tunisian to kill three people inside a church in the southern city of Nice.
The bloodshed inside Nice’s Notre-Dame Basilica added new tension in a country already on the highest alert after a string of attacks blamed on Islamists in recent weeks.
The 21-year-old Tunisian arrived in France this month via Italy before carrying out what the government described as an act of “Islamist” terror inside the church.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that France was “at war with Islamist extremism ... an enemy that is both internal and external”.
He added after a top-level security meeting that 3500 reserves in France’s gendarme force would be called up to give local authorities a total of 7000 members to ensure security.
Some 4000 additional French troops will also be mobilised from next week.
A 47-year-old man arrested on suspicion of contacting the killer the day before has no apparent link to the attack, a source close to the investigation said.
Another man, 35, who had been in contact with the assailant, was detained and placed in police custody, a judicial source added.
President Emmanuel Macron, who held a crisis meeting with top ministers, has already stepped up military patrols at churches and other sites ahead of All Saints’ Day on Sunday.
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned after the meeting that French citizens face a security risk “wherever they are” in the wake of the attack, saying alerts had been sent to all French nationals.
Nice’s right-wing mayor Christian Estrosi said he wanted to see a change in the constitution in order to “wage war” against what he termed “Islamo-fascism”.
Macron’s stance against Islamist extremist violence, and his defence of the Mohammed cartoons, has outraged many Muslims around the world who accuse him of unfairly targeting an entire religion.
Protests erupted in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mali, Mauritania and Lebanon, the latest in a string of rallies denouncing France.
Huge crowds took to the streets of Dhaka to condemn the French leader.
“We are all soldiers of Prophet Mohammed,” the crowd chanted as demonstrators called for a boycott of French goods and burned an effigy of Macron.
More effigies of Macron and French flags were burned and trampled in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city. Protesters marched on the French embassy shouting “expel the French dog” and “behead the blasphemous” but were prevented from reaching it by guarded barricades.
Smaller protests were also held in Afghanistan, Beirut and Tripoli while thousands of Palestinians rallied in Jerusalem’s Old City.
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