SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani condemned the attack on Thursday at a church in Nice, southern France.
“I condemn the terror act against civilians in the French city of Nice … I extend my condolences to the people and government of France and share their grief during this difficult time,” Barzani said in a tweet on Friday.
An assailant beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice on Thursday. The man was shot by police and is now in critical condition in a hospital.
Thursday’s attack took place at a time of growing Muslim anger across the globe at France’s defense of the right to publish cartoons depicting the prophet. Protesters have denounced France in street rallies in several Muslim-majority countries.
France’s chief anti-terrorism prosecutor said the man suspected of carrying out the Nice attack was a Tunisian born in 1999 who had arrived in Europe on Sept. 20 in Lampedusa, the Italian island off Tunisia that is a main landing point for migrants from Africa.
Speaking outside the church in Nice on Thursday, Macron said France had been attacked “over our values, for our taste for freedom, for the ability on our soil to have freedom of belief…And I say it with great clarity again today: We will not give any ground.”
