France's law and order are going through turmoil ever since a Muslim man beheaded a French teacher in the middle of the road for showing a caricature of Prophet Mohammad. On Thursday, the French witnessed another 'terror' attack. At least three people were stabbed to death on Thursday in the French city of Nice, with the Mayor saying that the incident pointed to a "terrorist attack at the heart of the Notre-Dame basilica".
According to the police, one woman was beheaded in the attack, while the suspect was detained shortly after the attack, the BBC reported.
Addressing the media, Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said that the suspect had "repeated endlessly 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest) when he was being treated at the scene", adding that one of the three victims was the caretaker at the basilica.
Now, Malaysian former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has justified the attack.
"Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past,” Mahathir wrote in one of the tweets, which was later removed from the platform for violating its rules.
"But by and large, the Muslims have not applied the ‘eye for an eye’ law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t.", he added.
"Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims’ religion for what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have a right to punish the French,” Mahathir wrote, referring to a man who decapitated a French teacher earlier this month.
Twitter initially flagged Mahathir’s tweet about killing “millions of French people” as “glorifying violence” and later removed it from the thread