
The UN human rights chief decried Friday two “vicious” attacks in France blamed on Islamist extremists this month, urging political leaders to take a hard stance against “hate speech”.Michelle Bachelet voiced outrage at the attack Thursday in a church in Nice, where a knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman.In an email sent to AFP, she also condemned “the horrendous murder in a similar manner of Samuel Paty two weeks ago”, when the teacher was decapitated outside a school north of Paris, by an Islamist extremist, after he showed his pupils cartoons of the P…