The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Friday, October 30, the attack in Nice (France) the day before and the assassination by an Islamist of Samuel Paty, calling on political and religious leaders to denounce "
quickly
”hate speech.
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I strongly condemn the heinous murders of three innocent human beings - including two women - which took place in Nice yesterday, as well as the gruesome murder of (French teacher) Samuel Paty two weeks ago,
" Michelle said. Bachelet in an email sent to AFP.
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Political and religious leaders, as well as the media, must not only avoid inciting violence, hostility or discrimination themselves, but they must also speak out firmly and swiftly against hate speech.
" , she added.
The senior UN official also called on leaders to "
make it very clear that violence cannot be justified by prior provocation
."
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The Nice attack, in which three people were stabbed to death in a church by a Tunisian on Thursday, occurred nearly two weeks after the assassination of a college professor in the Paris region, Samuel Paty, beheaded by a Chechen Russian Islamist for showing caricatures of Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression.
President Emmanuel Macron has since promised that France will not give up the freedom to caricature.
His statements have provoked a crisis with the Muslim world, where demonstrations of protest and calls for a boycott of French products are increasing.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thus posed as a champion in the defense of the Prophet Muhammad, vehemently criticizing the French president.
