(AFP) French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Saturday lamented the killings of three people killed by a knife attacker in Mediterranean city Nice and named “radical Islamism” as an “enemy” for the country.
“We know the enemy, it has not only been identified, but has a name, it’s radical Islamism,” Castex told a memorial service in Nice, recalling that the city had already paid a “heavy toll” when 86 people were killed in a 2016 truck-ramming attack against a crowd on France’s July 14 national day.
Radical Islamism is “a political ideology which distorts the Muslim religion by twisting its scriptures,” he added.
“Every time it’s France that’s in the sights, is the target of terrorism,” Castex said.
