France Police Increase Security After Two Attacks
Security services in France have warned after the last two days attacks were recorded referring to Allah.
On Saturday a young man walked into a police station in Joue les Tours (Indre et Loire) with a knife and wounded several policemen shouting “Allah Akbar” (God is greatest) before killing.
On Sunday, a motorist ran over pedestrians shouting “God is great” in Arabic, causing 11 wounded, two of them seriously, in the city of Dijon.
However, the procurator of Dijon, Marie-Christine Tarare ruled this afternoon terrorist track and explained that this is a man suffering psychiatric problems for many years and had been hospitalized more than a hundred times in various centers.
Man, born in 1974, presents the profile of an unbalanced and would be under the supervision of a psychiatric hospital, he told AFP font.
For its part, the assailant attacked the police station on Saturday had converted to Islam. He was already signed by the gendarmes for criminal acts, but had not been sentenced. It was also on the watch list because he was the brother of a radical Islamist investigated by the Secret Service.
French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, who moved on Saturday attacked police ordered the police to strengthen security measures at these violent attacks weekend.
The minister had asked the morning not jump to conclusions regarding the abuse and possible terrorist track. French President François Hollande, urged not to panic after the attacks, although he called extremely vigilant to the security forces.
Also the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on his Twitter account his solidarity with the wounded.
This attack comes a day after the attack on a police station in another town in the Midwest, where the attacker wounded three policemen knife shouting “Allah is great” after he was killed by agents.
The attack on Saturday shocked France, which was chosen as a target by the jihadist group Islamic state in its campaign of attacks against infidels.