Report: Attacker At Notre Dame Cathedral Claimed His Attack Was ‘For Syria!’

But we certainly don’t want to jump to conclusions about this psycho’s motivations, now do we?

Earlier, we told you that there was an incident at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris where an attacker went after police officers with a hammer. At the time, we didn’t have many details about the attack.

But now we know more. According to this, the attacker claimed to be doing this as an “ISIS soldier of the Caliphate” and that his actions were “for Syria” as he carried out the attack –

Paris prosecutors opened a counterterrorism investigation soon after the attack after the attacker said he was an ‘ISIS soldier of caliphate’, according to a probe source.
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb says the attacker cried ‘it’s for Syria’ as he went after officers patrolling an esplanade in front of the famous landmark.

Was this guy officially part of ISIS? No idea. But that hardly matters, really. ISIS seems like they’ll take credit for anyone who kills in their name.

People inside the cathedral also reported hearing sirens outside and not being allowed to leave while police did a sweep of the area –

 At least one person on the scene said on Twitter that he was inside the church and could hear sirens outside.

‘So we are trapped in Notre Dame Cathedral,’ Matthew CurrieHolmes, a tourist from Los Angeles, wrote on Twitter. ‘Something is happening outside we don’t know what it is. Police sirens can be heard.’
CurrieHolmes, who was also in London during the terror attack on Saturday, later said everyone was safe but that officials were not letting anyone in or out of the cathedral.
About 900 people inside the church were told to sit down and put their hands up as police investigated the attack.

Others on Twitter reported that everyone inside the cathedral was calm as the police conducted their investigation. So, that’s good news –

Locked inside #notre dame cathedral in #paris while police investigate attack outside against a policeman. All calm pic.twitter.com/Z4B8wUzPTV

— Nancy Soderberg (@nancysoderberg) June 6, 2017

Everyone is safe! #NotreDamedeParis pic.twitter.com/7OmNso737T

— Matthew CurrieHolmes (@mch2k) June 6, 2017

The other good news is that police shot the attacker and he’s wounded. So, maybe they’ll be able to get information out of him? Whether or not he’s actually part of ISIS – he ought to know something, right?

We can only hope.