Vienna synagogue shooting: French President Macron stands in solidarity with Austria

Following reports of several people being wounded in a suspected terror attack near a synagogue in Vienna, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed solidarity with Austria. According to reports, Vienna police have confirmed reports of shooting and informed of several injuries. However, exact number of causalities is yet to be clear.

One of attackers, who is believed to h accomplices, is reported to have been killed.  reports furr stated that about 50 shots were fired in street near synagogue. Austrian interior minister Karl Nehammer spoke on ORF TV and confirmed that police are still fighting presumed terrorists.

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latest police reports inform that Stttempel synagogue was one of six locations attacked in what seems like a planned assault. It’s yet to be confirmed if se were coordinated simultaneous attacks.

Vienna after France

This comes after three major terror attacks were reported in France over a period of one month. In latest attack on October 31, an Orthodox Greek priest in French city of Lyon was shot outside a church. Just two day prior to that, a man armed with a knife killed three people in a church in Nice.

Earlier on October 16, a history teacher was beheed outside his school amid ongoing tensions over a French newspaper’s publication of caricatures mocking Prophet Muhamm. events have heightened tensions across Europe over rical Islamist, secularism and freedom of speech. 

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