Everything points to a terrorist attack," the mayor said on Twitter Thursday morning. Heightened tensionsThe attack comes just weeks after Samuel Paty, a high school teacher, was beheaded in a terrorist attack in Paris. The Turkish Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the country "strongly condemns" the Nice attack. The French Council of the Muslim Faith strongly denounced Thursday's attack and called on French Muslims to cancel Thursday's Mawlid celebrations. "I strongly condemn the terrorist attack that took place near the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice.

Source: The Nation October 29, 2020 19:18 UTC