French president Hollande outraged at execution of US scribe Foley
22 Aug 2014 5:56 AM IST
French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he was outraged at the execution of US journalist James Foley by Islamic State jihadists, accusing them of barbarism.
‘I share the emotion, I share the compassions, I share also the outrage,’ the French leader said upon arrival at the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion.
‘To kill, to assassinate a journalist in these conditions, a journalist who had already been held for two years, to put on the internet the video of his murder, that is a sign of barbarism.’
Hollande added: ‘there is a rule which applies in all civilised society that the press must be protected.’ The Islamic State group who killed Foley and who have declared the creation of a caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq are not like other terrorist groups, the French leader warned.
‘Dispersed, scattered, with several heads, it is a terrorist organization that has decided to enslave, to annihilate, to destroy,’ he said.
‘And if the world doesn’t organise regarding this group there will be other equally appalling images, which won’t only concern journalists, they’ve crucified people,’ he added.
‘I share the emotion, I share the compassions, I share also the outrage,’ the French leader said upon arrival at the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion.
‘To kill, to assassinate a journalist in these conditions, a journalist who had already been held for two years, to put on the internet the video of his murder, that is a sign of barbarism.’
Hollande added: ‘there is a rule which applies in all civilised society that the press must be protected.’ The Islamic State group who killed Foley and who have declared the creation of a caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq are not like other terrorist groups, the French leader warned.
‘Dispersed, scattered, with several heads, it is a terrorist organization that has decided to enslave, to annihilate, to destroy,’ he said.
‘And if the world doesn’t organise regarding this group there will be other equally appalling images, which won’t only concern journalists, they’ve crucified people,’ he added.
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