A terrorist attack with a migration background occurred on Friday in France, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Saturday in Dunakeszi.
Mr Szijjártó said at the City Hall of Dunakeszi that yesterday’s terrorist attack claimed four lives, in addition to that of the perpetrator, and left fifteen people injured. The perpetrator was born in Morocco and was granted French citizenship at the age of twelve.
He added that this was yet another terrorist attack perpetrated by a person with a migration background. As a result, the number of terrorist attacks committed by immigrants in Europe in the past two and a half years has increased to 28.
So far they have received no information on Hungarian nationals caught up in the attack, the Minister added.
Mr Szijjártó offered Hungary’s condolences to France, and said that France can always rely on Hungary when it comes to the fight against terrorism.
The Minister highlighted that yesterday’s terrorist attack, too, clearly proves that “there is a very close connection between immigration and terrorism”. He added that some of the terrorists have arrived in Europe as immigrants in the past two and a half years, while others are immigrants from earlier times whose social integration has evidently failed.
“Instead of embracing European values, they have become the supporters and advocates of religious radicalism”, Mr Szijjártó added.
The Foreign Minister said that, despite acts of terrorism with a migration background, the UN continues to maintain that migration contributes to the development of humanity.
By contrast, the Hungarian position is that immigration is not a positive phenomenon, it is not useful. In actual fact, it is a lethal danger, and a national government can only have a single duty: to protect its own citizens from all this, Mr Szijjártó said.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade stated: “We are not going to allow illegal immigrants to come to Europe, and by doing so we are not going to allow terrorists to come to our country”.
(MTI)
