President of France calls the attack in Paris a “terrorist attack” and expresses solidarity with the victims

The president of France, Emmanuel Macronthis Sunday expressed its solidarity with the victims of the attack carried out on Saturday night by a 26-year-old Frenchman who stabbed a German tourist to death and injured two people in the center of Paris, while at the same time describing the incident as a “terrorist attack”. . .

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“I send my condolences to the family and loved ones of the German citizen who died this afternoon during the terrorist attack in Paris and I think with emotion about the people currently injured and under care”, wrote the French president on his account on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

Furthermore, he thanked the emergency forces who “allowed the rapid arrest” of the suspect, a 26-year-old French citizen, who according to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, was already sentenced to a four-year prison sentence. sentence handed down in 2016 for another attack, thwarted by authorities; he shouted “Allah is great” during the attack; and had “serious psychiatric problems.”

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Previously in a message on the networks, the Prime Minister of FranceÉlisabeth Borne, assumed that the Paris attack is a new terrorist attack in France, a month and a half after the last one in Arras (north), where a jihadist with a Russian passport stabbed a secondary school teacher.

“I salute the bravery and professionalism of our law enforcement and emergency services. We will not give an inch to terrorism. Never,” said Borne.

Since 2012, the jihadist attacks in France They killed 273 people, increasing the current number, and injured 1,200, especially in 2015 and 2016.

Source: Elcomercio

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