DAP & DAPSY condemns the horrible attack that has struck Nice during the French National holiday and has claimed the lives of many innocent people. A deliberate attack on France on this day of national significance is an attack on democracy and humanity itself.
At the time of writing, the instigators are yet to be known though the perpetrator was reportedly neutralised on site. We cannot but notice that France has repeatedly been targeted over the past year, together with other major cities such as Brussels, Istanbul, Baghdad, and, recently, Medina.
The common denominator is that civilians have paid the price of this senseless escalation of violence, for justifications acceptable to no sane human being.
DAP & DAPSY can empathise the horror that is faced by the people of France as we, here in Malaysia was recently were subjected to an act of terror, though the damage we endured is by far less catastrophic. We unreservedly condemn such acts and any organisations or individual that orchestrated this heinous act against Humanity. They must face the fullest measures of what is provided by law, to ensure justice is upheld.
We stand firm in solidarity with the people of France and our French comrades. We offer our deepest condolences to those whose family and loved ones have been affected or even fallen. We will continue to monitor the situation, through the assistance of our International organisation, The Progressive Alliance (PA) & International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) , our European Comrades of the Party of European Socialists (PES) & Young European Socialists (YES) as well as our French comrades of the Parti socialiste, France (PS) & Mouvement des Jeunes Socialistes (MJS).