(CNN) Emmanuel Macron has said that France “will not give into terrorism” after three people were killed in a knife attack on a church in Nice.
The French President described Thursday’s incident in the Mediterranean coast city as “Islamist and terrorist madness.”
“Once again this morning, it was three of our compatriots that fell in Nice, and very clearly France is under attack,” Macron added
The attack came during heightened tensions in the country over radical Islamism, secularism and freedom of speech.
The victims in Nice were stabbed in the city’s Notre-Dame Basilica. The group includes one woman who had her throat slit, a police source told CNN. (CNN)