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Terror Attacks In French-Speaking Quebec City – Man In “Medieval Clothes” Killed 2 And Injured 5 In A Stabbing Rampage



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Nov 01 2020
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Two people were killed and five others injured in a stabbing attack on Saturday night in Quebec City, Canada. Police spokesperson Étienne Doyon said the 5 injured victims were transported to local hospitals with different levels of injury. However, Doyon refused to reveal the motive of the attacks, whether the attacks were random or identify the victims out of respect for the families.

 

Doyon said police were first notified of the attacks near the French-speaking city’s Parliament Hill shortly before 10:30 pm Saturday. The area around the historic part of Old Quebec City, the place where the attacks first happened, has been shut down by the police, as well as the area near the National Assembly. Police asked residents to remain indoors as their investigation was ongoing.

 

Shortly before 1 a.m. local time, police announced that a man had been arrested in connection with the Halloween night attacks and taken to a hospital for evaluation. Apparently, the man, in his mid-20s and dressed in “medieval clothing”, was armed with what appeared to be a sword. The suspect was arrested near the Espace 400e business park.

Quebec City Canada Terror Attack - Attacker Armed With Sword, Dressed In Medieval Clothes

According to Quebec’s Le Soleil newspaper, the man was lying on the ground, barefoot and hypothermia when he was arrested. Wearing a black mask, he surrendered to police without any resistance. A Radio-Canada reporter on the scene said a security guard patrolling the Port of Quebec by car spotted the suspect fleeing, and immediately called the cops.

 

Witnesses said the attacker killed his first victim near the tourist hotspot Chateau Frontenac hotel. The attacker then continued his stabbing rampage on Rue des Remparts, where the second person was killed. He then headed to the Old Port where other victims were wounded. Le Soleil reported that the man had been planning his attack for a year and a half.

 

However, police spokesperson Doyon said he could neither confirm if the suspect was known to police, nor tells if more than one person may have been involved in the attack. He said – “Nothing is impossible. But for now, we’re happy to have arrested a suspect and the investigation is ongoing.” The police are scheduled to hold a press conference together with Quebec City mayor Regis Labeaume at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

Quebec City Canada Terror Attack - Police Truck at National Assembly

The Parliament Building located atop the Parliament Hill was designed by architect Eugène-Étienne Taché and was built from 1877 to 1886. He was a French Canadian surveyor, civil engineer and architect. Quebec is the second-most populous province of Canada, after Ontario. It is also the only one to have a predominantly French-speaking population, with French as the sole official language.

 

Coincidentally, the attack came after a series of attacks in France by radical Islamic terrorists. A 21-year-old Tunisian born in 1999 who reached the Italian island of Lampedusa, travelled to Nice, France, and attacked worshippers in a French church and killed three – including slit the throat of a 55-year-old church sacristan and beheaded a 60-year-old woman on Oct 29.

 

Armed with a knife with a 17-centimeter blade and carrying a copy of the Quran / Koran, the Tunisian – Brahim Aouissaoui – reportedly was still shouting “Allahu Akbar” when police arrived and confronted him, before he was shot and wounded. Brahim also stabbed a 44-year-old woman who fled to a nearby cafe where she raised the alarm, before she succumbed to her injuries.

France Terrorist Attack - Brahim Aouissaoui - Shot and Wounded in Nice

The Nice terror attack brought back the memory of another terrorist attack four years ago, where a Tunisian drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on 14 July, killing 86 people. And just hours after the Nice attack on Thursday, a man was shot and killed by police in the southern French city of Avignon after threatening police with a handgun.

 

Two weeks earlier (Oct 16), a history teacher – Samuel Paty – was beheaded for showing his class the cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Paty had shown his class a caricature from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo during a moral and civic education class discussion about freedom of speech. It sparked a furious response from a number of parents who had demanded his resignation.

 

The teacher was stabbed and beheaded outside his secondary school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine by 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, of Chechen origin, who was later shot dead by police. French authorities said a well-known mosque in a northern Paris suburb would be closed as part of their clampdown on Islamist groups and suspected extremists as a result of the killing.”

France Is Being Attacked - French President Emmanuel Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron called the latest Nice attack as an “Islamist terrorist attack”, and vowed not to give in to terrorists. Interestingly, an opinion poll after Paty’s murder found 79% of respondents felt “Islamism had declared war” on France and the French republic. This could be the tipping point in France after dozens of terror attacks in recent years.

 

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