The Conference of Bishops of France (CEF) qualified Thursday, October 29 as an "
unspeakable
"
act
the knife attack which left three dead in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice and wished that "
Christians do not become a target for cut down
”.
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"
We are moved, very touched and in a kind of astonishment in front of this kind of unspeakable act
", declared to AFP the father Hugues de Woillemont, the spokesperson of the CEF.
"
There is an urgent need to combat this gangrene that is terrorism, in the same way that there is an urgency to set up in a concrete way a fraternity in our country
", he added.
"The fraternity will win"
Father Hugues de Woillemont also reacted on Twitter by assuring that "the fraternity will win".
Monsignor Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, President of the Conference of Bishops of France, addressed his “prayer” for the victims and their loved ones, as well as a “very special” thought for the diocesans of Nice.
