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Attack in Nice: CFCM calls "Muslims in France to cancel the Mawlid festivities"

2020-10-30T08:09:00.111Z


The CFCM also calls on Muslim officials to close their mosques until further notice.Three people were killed in a knife attack on a church, Thursday, October 29 in Nice, whose author, a Tunisian recently in France, was arrested. This attack comes less than two weeks after the beheading of a college teacher, Samuel Paty, by an Islamist assailant. Read also: Attack in Nice: a man arrested, suspected of having been in contact with the attacker “ I strongly condemn the terrorist at


Three people were killed in a knife attack on a church, Thursday, October 29 in Nice, whose author, a Tunisian recently in France, was arrested.

This attack comes less than two weeks after the beheading of a college teacher, Samuel Paty, by an Islamist assailant.

Read also: Attack in Nice: a man arrested, suspected of having been in contact with the attacker

I strongly condemn the terrorist attack which took place near the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice.

As a sign of mourning and solidarity with the victims and their relatives, I call on the Muslims of France to cancel all the festivities of the Mawlid feast

, ”the CFCM said in a statement.

This feast is to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.

The CFCM also calls on Muslim officials to close their mosques until further notice.

The CFCM also presented "

its sincere condolences to the families of the victims and their relatives

" in a brief press release entitled "Muslims in mourning after the terrorist attack which targeted the faithful of the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice".

Muslims pray at Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille in homage to the victims of Nice.

CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP

Source: lefigaro

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