The incident in Lyon took place after four o’clock in the afternoon. No details are known about the attacker yet. According to the AP agency, which spoke to a police officer familiar with the situation, the priest is currently in the local hospital and his life is in danger after he was shot in the abdomen with a hunting rifle.
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Rescue and security forces intervene on the spot. The attacker is on the run. The French Ministry of the Interior and the national police are urging citizens to avoid the area.
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The attack has linked the attack with a religious subtext to the just three-day-old attack in Nice, southern France. A Tunisian who came to France illegally from Italy, according to the police version, attacked the basilica with a 17-centimeter blade and killed two women and a churchman. He injured several other people. The case is being investigated as a terrorist attack.
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Likewise, criminal investigators are waging a brutal attack on high school teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded this month by a young Chechen man for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in his class.
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Subsequent advocacy for cartoons and blasphemy by French President Emmanuel Macron has angered parts of the Muslim world, and some Muslim governments are blaming Macron for spreading anti-Islamic propaganda.
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In response to the attacks, Macron announced that France would deploy more troops to the streets to strengthen the protection of monuments, schools and tabernacles – more than doubling to 7,000. He said possible attacks are now facing the whole country to protect its values such as freedom. and a determination not to succumb to terror.
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