International community condemns attacks in three countries – Brazil Earth

At least 60 people die in attacks that occurred in France, Tunisia and Kuwait. UN says violence strengthens commitment in fighting terrorism. Sunni organization says EI is defaming Islam.

Leaders from around the world condemned the attacks on Friday (26/06) in Tunisia, France and Kuwait and expressed solidarity with the three countries. In all, over 60 people died in the attacks.

In France, a man was beheaded in a chemical plant near Lyon, in the southeast, while an attack on shots on the beach in a popular resort on the Tunisian coast has left at least 39 dead. Already in Kuwait, 27 people died in the explosion of a bomb in a Sunni mosque.

According to the US State Department, there is no indication that the attacks were coordinated. However, the extremist group “Islamic State” claimed responsibility for the attacks in Tunisia and Kuwait.

The Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon criticized the attacks in a statement. “Far from weakening the resolve of the international community to fight the scourge of terrorism, these heinous attacks only strengthen the commitment of the United Nations to help combat those interested in death, destruction and annihilation of culture and human development,” he said the organization’s spokesman, Farhan Haq.

The minister of the German Foreign Ministry, Peter Altmaier, sent by Twitter a French message to express solidarity to the neighboring country. German authorities also participate in the bombing investigation in Lyon, in support of French researchers.

The NATO chief, Jens Stoltenberg, said the European leaders attending the European Union summit in Brussels that we need to discuss “new threats” that come to Europe, and argued that countries invest in their defense systems in order to face “a security environment has changed dramatically” recently.

The head of EU diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, called on the Arab world and the Europeans keep up together. “Arabs, Muslims, non-Muslims: we are all together in the same boat.”

The White House also issued a statement in solidarity with the peoples of the three countries that suffered attacks on Friday and the families of the victims. The United States also asserted that “are in touch” with governments in order to provide any necessary support.

The Brazilian government also spoke, deploring the criminal acts “perpetrated by extremists in the name of ideas incompatible with the most elementary rules of coexistence and respect for human rights.”

Leaders of the Islamic world also condemned the attacks. The Sunni Muslim institution in Egypt Al-Azha said that the shooting in Tunisia was a “violation of all religious and humanitarian norms.” And called on the international community “defeat this terrorist group [" Islamic State "] in all possible ways,” saying that the actions of jihadists are “defaming” Islam.

The prominent Sunni cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi suggested that the militants are worse than “beasts”. “Beasts do not kill other animals, unless they need to eat. But some people are never satisfied of death and blood.”

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