São Paulo – Brazil has condemned the terrorist attacks this Friday (26th) in Tunisia, Kuwait and France. According to a statement from the Foreign Ministry, the Brazilian government “deplores the proliferation of terrorist attacks that keep claiming innocent lives in different parts of the world.”
In a hotel in Sousse, Tunisia, gunmen shot down at least 36 people and left 39 wounded, Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) has reported. The Tunisian Interior minister Mohamed Ali Laroui said the victims were British, German, Polish, Belgian and Tunisian.
The attack in Sousse came shortly over three months after the Bardo Museum attack that left 21 casualties. The two events were hugely detrimental to one of the country’s primary economic activities: tourism.
In Kuwait City, an explosion at the Shite mosque Al-Iman Al-Sadiq killed at least 25 people and wounded 202, the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry reported according to Kuwait News Agency (Kuna). Friday is a day of collective prayer in the Muslim world and the mosques are crowded. The attack took place during the afternoon prayer and during Ramadan, the Muslim calendar month that marks the Koran’s revelation to prophet Mohammed, in which followers fast from sunrise to sunset.
In the French city of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, there was an explosion this morning in the Air Products chemicals plant and a human head was found hanging from a fence, according to the website of the French daily Le Monde.
“These are criminal actions perpetrated by extremists, to espouse ideas incompatible with the most basic rules of respect to civility and human rights,” the Brazilian government said.
According to the Foreign Ministry’s statement, “religious intolerance and recourse to indiscriminate violence, under any pretext, are worthy of utmost repudiation from the Brazilian society and government.”
The statement adds that the government “extends its condolences and solidarity to the victims’ families and the people and governments of Tunisia, Kuwait, and France.”
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
