Macron Tempers Tone on Islamic Extremism After Terrorist Attack
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French authorities vowed to stand firm in the face of Islamist extremism, while sending out a “message of peace to the Muslim world,” after a knifeman killed three people and injured several others at a church in Nice.
“If we’re attacked, once again, it’s for our values, our taste for liberty, the possibility on our soil to believe freely,” President Emmanuel Macron said, after speaking to police and emergency staff at the Notre-Dame basilica in the Mediterranean city. “We will give up nothing.”