one dead as armed man storms french retirement home
Last Updated : GMT 05:17:37
Emiratesvoice, emirates voice
Emiratesvoice, emirates voice
Last Updated : GMT 05:17:37
Emiratesvoice, emirates voice

One dead as armed man storms French retirement home

Emiratesvoice, emirates voice

Emiratesvoice, emirates voice One dead as armed man storms French retirement home

Gendarmes stand guard on a road near a retirement home for missionaries in Montferrier-sur-Lez, southern France, early
Montferrier-sur-Lez - Arab Today

 A hooded man stabbed a woman to death at a retirement home for missionaries in southern France on Thursday triggering a manhunt, with the country still on edge following a string of militant attacks.

The man, brandishing a sawn-off shotgun and a knife, tied up and killed the woman who worked at the home in the village of Montferrier-sur-Lez near the city of Montpellier, a prosecutor said.

More than 70 men and women, most of whom served as missionaries in Africa, live at the home.

Armed police searched the building but believe the man fled, sources close to the police operation said, and a large-scale police operation was underway to find the unidentified attacker.

Investigators so far had no evidence to suggest the attack was terror-related at a time when France remains under a state of emergency after a number of militant atrocities, including the murder of an elderly Catholic priest in July

“For the time being, there is only one victim,” Montpellier prosecutor Christophe Barret told AFP. “For the moment there is no particular evidence about the motive for this crime.”

The man was not known to authorities.

Residents of the home “are very elderly with an average age of 75 although some are more than 90,” said Alain Berthet, a local councillor in Montferrier-sur-Lez.

Many of the residents require assistance to walk, he said.

The secretary general of the French Bishops’ Conference, Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, said in a Twitter message: “Our prayers tonight go to the woman who lost her life in this attack on a retirement home.”

Around two hours after the attacker burst into the home, more than a dozen police and emergency vehicles lined the roads near the home while police set up roadblocks to check vehicles passing through the area.

A large security perimeter, stretching for several hundred metres (yards), had been set up and officers from elite armed unit RAID were on the scene.

State of emergency

France is under a state of emergency that gives security forces enhanced powers of surveillance and arrest.

Extremists have carried out three large-scale attacks in France since January 2015, when gunmen targeted the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket.

Ten months later, Daesh (the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) militants massacred 130 people in attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, France’s national stadium and a handful of bars and restaurants in eastern Paris.

And in July, a self-radicalised extremist ploughed a truck into crowds watching Bastille Day fireworks in the southern city of Nice, killing 86.

Two weeks later, two militants in their 20s claiming to be Daesh followers slit the throat of 84-year-old priest Jacques Hamel at a church near the northern city of Rouen

source : gulfnews

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

one dead as armed man storms french retirement home one dead as armed man storms french retirement home

 



Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

one dead as armed man storms french retirement home one dead as armed man storms french retirement home

 



GMT 16:17 2018 Thursday ,30 August

Five Saudi women pilots granted GACA licences

GMT 13:10 2012 Sunday ,05 February

UBL victorious in President\'s Cup

GMT 09:29 2017 Sunday ,23 July

Khalid bin Hamad League hailed

GMT 17:59 2016 Monday ,29 August

Bomb Hits Empty Police Research Center in Brussels

GMT 09:49 2017 Sunday ,26 November

Survivors offer horrific accounts of mosque carnage

GMT 12:58 2011 Monday ,06 June

Ban calls for restraint after Golan shooting

GMT 11:53 2012 Thursday ,11 October

Colorful sea creatures

GMT 10:01 2011 Tuesday ,31 May

VW makes official offer for MAN trucks
 
 Emirates Voice Facebook,emirates voice facebook  Emirates Voice Twitter,emirates voice twitter Emirates Voice Rss,emirates voice rss  Emirates Voice Youtube,emirates voice youtube  Emirates Voice Youtube,emirates voice youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

emiratesvoieen emiratesvoiceen emiratesvoiceen emiratesvoiceen
emiratesvoice emiratesvoice emiratesvoice
emiratesvoice
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
emiratesvoice, Emiratesvoice, Emiratesvoice