French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday said that more attacks are likely in the country as it is fighting a war against Islamist extremism, Reuters reported.
“We are in a war against an enemy that is both inside and outside,” Darmanin told French radio network RTL, according to the news agency. “We need to understand that there have been and there will be other events such as these terrible attacks.”
Darmanin noted the frequency with which terror attacks took place in France in the last few weeks and said that “this has not happened since 2015”, Xinhua reported.
The minister’s remarks came a day after a knife-wielding attacker killed three people at a church in Nice city. There has also been unrest in the country after the beheading of a teacher near Paris earlier this month. The teacher had showed caricatures of Prophet Muhammad in class before the attack.
Following this, French President Emmanuel Macron had vowed a crackdown on “Islamic extremism”, according to AFP. His response to the attacks has been criticised by Muslim leaders, including Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
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