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Suspect in Attack on French Soldiers Is Arrested French Soldiers Guarding Jewish Site Are Attacked
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PARIS — The French police on Tuesday arrested a man believed to have attacked and wounded three soldiers who were guarding a Jewish community center in the southern city of Nice, prosecutors said, heightening anxieties just weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris shook the country. PARIS — The French police on Tuesday arrested a man believed to have attacked and wounded three soldiers who were guarding a Jewish community center in the southern city of Nice, prosecutors said, heightening anxieties just weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris shook the country.
The soldiers were patrolling in the city center, near a Jewish community center housing a Jewish radio station, when a knife-wielding attacker “rushed at the throat of one of the soldiers,” Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, said in a telephone interview. The soldier escaped, and his face was slightly injured, he said. The same attacker, Mr. Estrosi said, cut the arm of another soldier. News reports said the attacker was arrested after trying to flee on foot. The soldiers were patrolling in the city center, near a Jewish community center housing a Jewish radio station, when a knife-wielding attacker “rushed at the throat of one of the soldiers,” Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, said in a telephone interview. The soldier escaped with minor injuries to his face, he said. The same attacker, Mr. Estrosi added, cut the arm of another soldier. News reports said the attacker was arrested after trying to flee on foot.
President François Hollande issued a statement condemning the attack “with the greatest firmness.” The attack coincided with the emergence of a video by the Islamic State militant group inciting French jihadists to carry out further terrorist acts. The video, which showed masked militants in a desert landscape, also urged sympathizers in France who cannot leave the country to take whatever action they can.
“Explode France,” a masked man said in the footage. “Explode the head of these guilty people.”
President François Hollande issued a statement condemning the Nice attack “with the greatest firmness.”
Mr. Hollande said officials would “shed light on the motivations and circumstances of this criminal act.”Mr. Hollande said officials would “shed light on the motivations and circumstances of this criminal act.”
The attacker, who was identified as Moussa Coulibaly, was known to the French police and “had been convicted for minor offenses,” said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, the spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor. The attacker, who was identified as Moussa Coulibaly, was known to the French police and “had been convicted for minor offenses,” said Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, the spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor.
Though the suspect had the same surname as Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed four people at a kosher supermarket in Paris last month, the authorities said it was unclear whether the two were related or whether they knew each other. The suspect had the same surname as Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed four people at a kosher supermarket in Paris last month, but the authorities said it was unclear whether the two were related or whether they had known each other.
On Tuesday, the newspaper Le Monde said Moussa Coulibaly had aroused the attention of the police after he flew to Turkey on Jan. 28. Turkey has been used as a gateway for people seeking to enter Syria. But the Turkish authorities sent him back to France at the request of French intelligence officials.On Tuesday, the newspaper Le Monde said Moussa Coulibaly had aroused the attention of the police after he flew to Turkey on Jan. 28. Turkey has been used as a gateway for people seeking to enter Syria. But the Turkish authorities sent him back to France at the request of French intelligence officials.
While the soldiers in Nice were not thought to be seriously wounded, news of the assault raised the alarm in a country still reeling after last month's terrorist attacks, at a satirical newspaper as well as the Jewish supermarket, left 17 people dead. In the aftermath of the attacks last month, the French government has increased security across the country, deploying thousands of soldiers and police officers to guard sites considered vulnerable, including Jewish schools, in what the Defense Ministry has called “the first mobilization on this scale on our territory.” The display of resolve by the government, still grappling with why it was unable to thwart January’s attacks, has been accompanied by tough measures against hate speech and an intensifying crackdown on the recruitment of French citizens, more than 1,000 of whom left or planned to leave last year to fight in Iraq or Syria.
In the aftermath of the attacks, the French government has increased security across the country, deploying thousands of soldiers and police officers to guard sites considered vulnerable, including Jewish schools, in what the Defense Ministry has called “the first mobilization on this scale on our territory.” About 10,000 soldiers have been deployed to “sensitive sites,” including tourist attractions, major buildings and airports and railroad stations. The new Islamic State video, which was verified by the SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that monitors jihadist activity on the Internet, began with a sleekly produced series of television clips showing various attacks within France, including three that occurred late last year when men claiming to be militants drove cars into crowds.
The display of resolve by the government, still grappling with why it was unable to thwart January’s attacks, has been accompanied by tough measures against hate speech as well as an intensifying clamp-down on the recruitment of French citizens, more than 1,000 of whom left or planned to go last year to fight in Iraq and Syria. That effort to root out jihadist recruitment networks continued Tuesday when French counterterrorism officers arrested eight people in the northern suburbs of Paris and in the area of the city of Lyon. They were suspected of being part of a network recruiting people to fight in Syria, the Interior Ministry said.
That effort to root out jihadist recruitment networks continued Tuesday when French counterterrorism officers arrested eight people in the northern suburbs of Paris and in the Lyon region. They were suspected of being part of a network recruiting people to fight in Syria, the Interior Ministry said. The arrests followed those of five people last week in the southern town of Lunel, where counterterrorism forces have been seeking to dismantle a network that has sent young people to Syria and Iraq.
Those arrests followed the arrests of five people last week in the southern town of Lunel, where counterterrorism forces have been seeking to dismantle a recruitment network that has sent young people to Syria and Iraq. Over the past year, more than 10 young people left Lunel for Syria to join the Islamic State, and several have died in Syria or Iraq, according to the Interior Ministry. Over the past year, more than 10 young people have left Lunel for Syria to join the Islamic State, and several have died in Syria or Iraq, according to the Interior Ministry.
Separately, Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper that was targeted last month, said on Tuesday that it would release its next issue on Feb. 25.
Laurent Léger, a journalist for Charlie Hebdo and the left-wing Libération newspaper who escaped the shooting on Jan. 7 by hiding under a table, did not say whether the new cover of the issue would include any provocative images of the Prophet Muhammad.
“We will be guided by news,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday. “We are trying to revive the paper. We are recovering. But we still have injured people among our staff members, and we think about them.”