In a tweet on Thursday, he wrote, “We strongly condemn today's terrorist attack in #Nice. This escalating vicious cycle—hate speech, provocations & violence—must be replaced by reason & sanity.”
“We should recognize that radicalism only breeds more radicalism, and peace cannot be achieved with ugly provocations,” he added.
An attacker with a knife killed three people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday.
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