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Tunisian man shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is Greatest) beheaded
a woman and killed two other people in a church in the coastal
city on Oct. 29 before being shot and taken away by police.
"We know the enemy. Not only has it been identified, but it has
a name, it is radical Islam, a political ideology that
disfigures the Muslim religion," Castex said in a speech during
the ceremony.
"(It is) an enemy that the government is fighting relentlessly
by providing the necessary resources and mobilising all of its
forces everyday," he added.
The Nice attack followed the beheading of a schoolteacher in a
suburb of Paris on Oct. 16 by a Chechen-born man who was
apparently incensed by the teacher showing a cartoon of the
Prophet Mohammad in class.
The attack in Nice took place amid worldwide Muslim anger over
France's defence of the right to publish cartoons depicting the
prophet.
A 21-year-old man recently arrived from Tunisia, suspected of
being the Nice attacker, is still in a critical condition after
being shot by municipal police and was transferred to a Paris
hospital on Friday.
(Reporting by Jean-Stephane Brosse; Writing by Leigh Thomas;
Editing by Helen Popper)
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