France is under attack declares Macron

PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron declared that France was ‘under attack’ as the country’s threat level was raised to maximum last night.

He vowed to increase the numbers of soldiers deployed to protect important sites, such as places of worship and schools, from 3,000 to 7,000.

Speaking from the scene of the attack in Nice, he said the country had been targeted ‘over our values, for our taste for freedom, for the ability on our soil to have freedom of belief’. He added: ‘And I say it with lots of clarity again today: we will not give any ground.’

He said that all of France offered its support to Catholics ‘so that their religion can be exercised freely in our country. So that every religion can be practised’.