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How can France best navigate questions surrounding secularism, freedom of expression, extremism and Islamophobia? That's a question being asked following the murder of three people in a knife attack in the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice. The attacker, a 21 year old Tunisian immigrant, was shot by police and is now in hospital.

Religious tensions were already at an all time high following the killing two weeks' ago of a history teacher, Samuel Paty, after he showed students a picture of the Prophet Muhammed. The trial related to the deadly attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015 is also ongoing.

Mireille Clapot is an MP with President Macron's party and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

(Photo: Young people light candles near the entrance of the Notre Dame Basilica church. Credit: EPA)