(ANSA) - PARIS, OCTOBER 29 - The French president, Emmanuel Macron, denounced "an Islamist terrorist attack" around Nice and guaranteed "support for Catholics from all over the country".
First of all, I want to give the whole nation the support of the Catholics of France and the world "Macron declared, speaking in front of the church of the attack." After the assassination of Father Hamel in the summer of 2016, Catholics are again attacked in our country, threatened. The whole nation is at their side and will remain there so that religion can continue to be practiced freely in our country ".
" In France - continued the president - there is only one community, the national community. In these moments, we must unite and give nothing to the spirit of division ". (ANSA).