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“The latest attacks in France are already being celebrated on a large scale throughout the jihadist community,” said the terror propaganda monitoring group online, SITE Intelligence Group. (Read: Three Killed in Attack on French Church, One Victim Beheaded)
The director of the SITE Intelligence Group, Rita Katz, said ISIS-supporting jihadists are celebrating what they call “freedom of action”.
According to him, the new attacks in France come amid a large influx of jihadist media condemning France and the cartoonists Charlie Hebdo.
Extremists linked to ISIS and al-Qaeda captured the moment of Samuel Paty’s beheading earlier this month to spark more attacks on France. Paty is a history teacher who was beheaded by refugee Chehchnya on the outskirts of Paris on October 16 after she showed students cartoons insulting the Prophet Muhammad during a class discussion on freedom of expression.
Katz said the “prospect of coordination” between the various attackers seemed increasingly plausible, although not confirmed. (Read: Twitter deletes Mahathir’s tweet ‘Muslims have the right to kill millions of French’)
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda published a press release calling for “jihad” or “holy war” over the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad by French satire magazine; Charlie Hebdo.
“Massive celebration on social media for terrorism, where jihadists took to Twitter after the latest killings,” Katz was quoted as saying The Sun, Friday (30/10/2020).
On Thursday, a beheaded woman was among three people killed by a Tunisian migrant in a knife attack at the Bacisilia Notre-Dame church in Nice. Attacks also occurred in Avignon, but there were no reports of casualties.
Police sources named the suspect in the Nice attack as Brahim Aoussaoui, 21, a Tunisian man who arrived in Europe a few weeks ago. (Also read: Khamenei: Macron is stupid, insulting the Prophet Muhammad should be a crime in France)
French prosecutors said that the perpetrators of the attack in Nice used a 12-inch knife to slaughter three churchgoers. The perpetrator is now in hospital with serious injuries after being shot by police.
He landed in late September on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where he was placed in quarantine by authorities to prevent the coronavirus, before finally arriving in France this month.
The first victim in the Nice attack was identified as Vincent Loquès, who was known as a church guard. Loquès, a father of two, is a 54-year-old sacristan in the building, an officer assigned to run the church.
The second victim, a 60-year-old woman, was found strangled and beheaded inside the church.
The third victim, a 44-year-old woman, fled the church at 8:54 a.m., but died at a nearby cafe from her injuries.
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