French Religious Leaders Call For Reinforced Security After Church Attack
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published July 27, 2016 | 01:42 PM
PARIS, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th july,2016) : French religious leaders on Wednesday called for authorities to boost security at places of worship after terrorits killed a priest in a Normandy church. "We deeply desire that our places of worship are the subject of greater (security) focus, a sustained focus," said French Muslim leader Dalil Boubakeur, after meeting with President Francois Hollande. Hollande gathered with the leaders of the country's main religions a day after two attackers stormed a church in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass, slitting the throat of an 86-year-old priest.
Boubakeur, speaking in the name of French Muslims, voiced his "deep grief" at the attack which he descrbed as a "blasphemous sacrilege which goes against all the teachings of our religion." The attack, claimed by IS , comes less than two weeks after Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd in the Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring over 300. The third major strike on France in 18 months prompted a bitter political spat over alleged security failings.
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