Synagogues And Jewish Schools Closing In France Due To Fears Of More Terror Attacks

All Synagogues & Jewish Schools In Nice Closed On Fears Of Islamic Terror Attacks

Tyler Durden

The large Jewish community in Nice, France is on edge this weekend following the horrific beheading of an elderly woman and the fatal stabbing of two others at the city's Notre Dame church on Thursday.

The killer has been identified as 21-year old migrant Brahim Issaoui who recently arrived from Tunisia. The man had shouted "Allahu Akbar" just before police shot him. The man had been carrying a Koran. French President Emmanuel Macron said in the wake of the attack that "France is under attack from Islamist terrorists." 

"We are being attacked [for] our values: Freedom and the refusal to give in to terrorism," he added of the second major Islamic terror attack this month. More than two weeks ago teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in a northern Paris suburb after showing Charlie Hebdo cartoons to his students.

Multiple Middle East countries, including Lebanon and Pakistan witnessed large Muslim protests in front of the French embassies in the countries Friday. Macron is being called "anti-Islamic" as tensions mount in a very similar way to what triggered the Charlie Hebdo killings. The January 7, 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre left 12 people dead after the newspaper published a series of cartoons perceived as mocking the founder of Islam Muhammad.

And now the Times of Israel reports that synagogues and Jewish schools are temporarily shutting down on fears another attack:

The Jewish community of Nice, France, is keeping its 15 synagogues and three schools closed and increasing security around kosher shops following the killing of three people in a church by a man shouting "God is great" in Arabic.

"We have decided to close all the schools tomorrow," the chief rabbi of Nice, Franck-Daniel Teboul, told Israel’s Channel 13 Thursday. “The synagogues will also be closed. Kosher shops are on alert.”

"We’re all feeling threatened," the rabbi said further.

 

More broadly French citizens living or traveling abroad have also been warned by the government that they could be under threat. 

"We Are At War" - French Official Warns Country Must Brace For More Islamist Terror Attacks

Tyler Durden

For the second time in October, France has been hit with grisly knife attacks, forcing government officials to warn that more of these terror fueled incidents by "Islamist ideology" are coming.

The latest attack occurred in the French city of Nice on Thursday. Three people were stabbed to death at a church. While an investigation is underway, French President Emmanuel Macron was quick to say the French people are under attack by "Islamist and terrorist madness."

Thursday's killings follow the gruesome beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in a northern Paris suburb earlier this month. A Chechen refugee beheaded Paty after he showed his students cartoons of prophet Muhammad in a freedom of expression lesson.

Besides Macron's warning, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told RTL radio on Friday, quoted by RT News, that the country must be prepared for future attacks as it battles Islamic extremism. 

"We are in a war against an enemy that is both inside and outside. We need to understand that there have been and there will be other events such as these terrible attacks," Darmanin said on RTL radio. 

Video: "France is at war. We are at war with an enemy outside and inside. We are at war with the Islamist ideology," he said on RTL radio. 

The government raised the terror threat to the highest "emergency" level late this week. Soldiers have been deployed to schools and churches across the country. This also comes as Macron declared a second national lockdown Friday until at least the end of November due to rising coronavirus cases.