Outrage broke around the world as tension surges between France and Muslim nations.

Three people were killed in Nice while one attacked in Saudia Arabia.


An incident took place at the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, France on Thursday morning when a man using a knife attacked three people brutally, shouting “Allahu Akbar”. Among the three victims, one woman in her 70s who was “virtually beheaded” and a man in his 40s or 50s whose throat was cut died inside the church. The third victim who was also a woman, ran away from the church seeking refuge in a nearby cafe but was followed by the accused and killed.

The suspected man behind the killing of three at the church in the southern French city of Nice is identified as Brahim Aouissaoui, 21-year old Tunisian who arrived to Europe in late September on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where he quarantined by authorities before being released with an order to quit Italian territory. He arrived in France in early October. Aouissaoui was arrested for assassination of three and in judicial custody.

Meanwhile, man was shot by police who was shouting “Allahu Akbar” while threatening the passerby with a handgun, just within the few hours of Nice attack in Montfavet, near the southern French city of Avigon

Another incident took place where a security guard at the French Consulate was attacked with a knife on Thursday in the southern French city of Avigon, according to the French Embassy in Saudia Arabia. The guard was immediately taken to the hospital while attacker was apprehended by the Saudi security forces in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

The outraged sparked between Muslim community and French when a middle school teacher had shown students caricature of the Prophet Mohommed and beheaded for the same reason outside the school he teaches in, on October 16, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack”. The suspect was a 18-year-old boy who in a similar pattern shouted “Allahu Akbar” before beheading the teacher, Samuel Paty.

The French government, in defense identified cartoons as freedom of expression, while declaring a need to “reform” the practice of Islam in France. In its response, the Muslim world followed by the protest, is been calling for a boycott of French products.

French President Emmanuel Macron warned its citizens in and around Muslim countries to be extra cautious while announcing deployment of more than doubling the number of soldiers from 3,000 to 7,000 of anti-terror French security force throughout the country, especially at churches, religious sites and schools.

“If we attacked once again it is for the values which are ours: freedom, for the possibility on our soil to believe freely and not to give in to any spirit of terror. I say it with great clarity once again today: we won’t surrender anything,” President Macron said. While Christian Estrosi, Nice’s Mayor said, “I send all my support and all my compassion to the families of the victims of this barbarian.”

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