“Tell My Children I Love Them,” France Attack Victim said before Death

French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his us of a might stand corporation towards non secular extremists after a knife-wielding guy killed 3 human beings at a church, withinside the us of a’s 2d assault blamed on Islamist terrorism this month.

France will not “surrender on our values,” Macron stated in Nice, after a Tunisian migrant went on a close to 30 minutes rampage with a 30-centimetre (12-inch) knife, concentrated on human beings praying withinside the southern city’s Notre-Dame basilica.

A 60-year-vintage female died in the church and the frame of a guy, a 55-year-vintage church employee, become observed nearby, his throat additionally slit.

Another female, a 44-year-vintage Brazilian who had fled the church to a close-by restaurant, died quickly afterwards from more than one knife wounds.

“Tell my kids I love them,” she controlled to mention earlier than her death, in keeping with French cable channel BFM TV.

The assailant, who become shot and wounded through police, become recognized as 21-year-vintage Brahim Aouissaoui, who arrived in Italy remaining month, then travelled to France, judicial reassets stated.

Aouissaoui who had a duplicate of the Koran and 3 knives with him, shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) while approached through police who shot and critically wounded him, France’s anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard advised a press conference.

Abdallah Zekri, director standard of the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM) denounced Thursday’s assault and entreated French Muslims to cancel festivities to mark the Mawlid, or the Prophet’s birthday, which results up Thursday, “in harmony with the sufferers and their cherished ones”.