Macron says IS defeat removes 'significant threat' to France

Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/3/19

[Eleutheria5]

French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday that the fall of the so-called "caliphate" run by Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria has removed a source of potential terror attacks against France.

"A significant threat to our country" has been "eliminated", Macron said on Twitter, adding that "the step taken today is immense."

"But the threat remains and the fight against terrorist groups must continue," he added.

France has suffered a wave of jihadist-inspired terror attacks that have killed 250 people since 2015, when gunmen massacred 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

The next day a man took hostages at a Jewish supermarket on the edge of Paris, killing four before being shot and killed by police.

"If you attack the caliphate, we will attack you," the attacker, Amedy Coulibaly, said in a posthumous video.

Macron's comments came as Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and other officials gathered in Trebes, southern France, to mark the first anniversary of a shooting spree by a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State.

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[txrefugee]

At the very least, this effeminate twit should send President Trump a nice fruit basket for saving France...again.

[Eleutheria5]

Write him a poem full of angst and irony, along with a stone of stinky cheese and a bottle of sour wine.

[blueplum]

Think so, Macron? So your historic, world-treasure, Christian churches are just self-vandalizing all on their own?

[Eleutheria5]

The gargoyles do it! The gargoyles! Didn’t you see the Disney flicks where they could talk and move around? It’s true, I tell you! Jooos! are making them vandalize their homes, and blaming it on Muslims, who would never hurt anyone, ever./s