Video : French police deal with a "serious accident" in Lyon and reports of a priest injured
The French Interior Ministry said today, Saturday, that the security forces are dealing with a "serious accident" in Lyon, while several sources confirmed that a priest had been shot.
The Ministry of the Interior said, in a brief statement via "Twitter", that security forces and ambulance units deployed in the Jean Massi area in the seventh district billion, due to a "serious accident".
The ministry stated that a security cordon had been imposed around the site of the accident, calling for refraining from visiting this area for the time being.
Meanwhile, police sources told several media outlets that a 52-year-old Orthodox priest was wounded by a shooting in the city, while the attacker managed to flee.
A source told "Reuters" that the priest was shot twice at around 16:00 local time, while he was closing the Greek Orthodox church, and he received first aid at the site from serious injuries that threatened his life and was still in critical condition.
He explained that the priest is of Greek nationality, and was able to inform the emergency services upon arrival that he did not recognize the aggressor.
The videos of the accident in Lyon
🔴 #Lyon : un homme blessé par balle rue St-Lazare dans le 7e arrondissement, dans des circonstances encore obscures. Le tireur serait en fuite. Le secteur actuellement bouclé par les #policiers @lyonmag pic.twitter.com/8RUoFFXDNi
— Julien Damboise (@JDANDOU) October 31, 2020
🔴 #Lyon : la personne blessée par balles est bien le prêtre orthodoxe (confirmation source #police), touché de deux tirs dans une #église orthodoxe de la rue. Des militaires arrivent sur place @lyonmag pic.twitter.com/nVDB5Nf73m
— Julien Damboise (@JDANDOU) October 31, 2020
France attacks
France recently witnessed a series of attacks against the background of the issue of the cartoons insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, which was published in the "Charlie Hebdo" newspaper.
In early September, the French newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" re-published the drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, which in January 2015 caused a terrorist attack on its headquarters in Paris that killed 12 people and sparked a wave of anger in the Islamic world.
On October 16, a young man of Chechen origin named Abdullah Anzurov (18 years), history teacher, Samuel Patty, (47), was killed in front of a preparatory school in the Conflans-Saint-Honorine suburb north of Paris, where he beheaded with a knife and tried to threaten the policemen who arrived at The place wiped out the attacker with bullets.
Multiple sources said that the attack came after the teacher showed his pupils offensive drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, while eyewitnesses reported that the attacker was chanting "God is Great" after killing Patty.
Against the background of these developments, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, delivered a speech in which he described Bate as the "face of the republic", pledging that "France would not abandon the caricatures", while he described Muslims in France as "separatists", directing new measures to prevent the spread of "extremism among Muslims." " in the country.
On October 29, a man armed with a knife launched an attack in front of the Notre Dame church in Nice, France, killing 3 people, including an elderly woman who was beheaded.
The attacker was transferred to the hospital after being shot by the police, while eyewitnesses reported that he kept repeating "God is Great" all the way. The authorities stated that the perpetrator of the attack was a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant, whose name was Ibrahim Al-Ouesawi, while the attack was classified as a terrorist .
In recent days, the security services announced that they had thwarted several other attacks in the country.
Source: RT + agencies
