“The safety of the European people is paramount, and accordingly migration must be kept outside Europe’s borders”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed with relation to the knife attack in Lyon, France on Saturday.

In a statement to Hungarian new agency MTI on Sunday, the Minister said: “We sympathise with our French friends in these hours of grief and pain, and hope that this despicable attack will not claim more victims”. Mr. Szijjártó also took the opportunity to wish the injured a full and speedy recovery.

“Hungary’s position is clear: It cannot be part of the European way of life that we should have to fear for our lives at a bus stop or a street fair or concert, because there are people who live here in Europe, but who want to destroy us”, the Foreign Minister underlined.

“The safety of the European people is paramount, and accordingly migration must be kept outside Europe’s borders”, he added.

On Saturday, an attacker stabbed a 19-year-old man to death and injured nine other people in a suburb of Lyon, France. The man, whose motives are as yet unclear, was apprehended by police and remanded in custody for murder and attempted murder. According to French television station BFM, the assailant claims to be Afghan and was born in 1986.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade/MTI)