(MENAFN- The Peninsula) A Moroccan man was stabbed to death in his home in southern France in what a Muslim group called a "horrible Islamophobic" attack the week after France was rocked by the Charlie Hebdo killings.
The 28-year-old attacker forced the front door of his neighbours' home in the village of Beaucet near Avignon after midnight, shouting "I am your god, I am your Islam" before repeatedly stabbing Mohamed El Makouli, National Observatory Against Islamophobia said yesterday.
The 47-year-old man was disarmed but later returned with another knife and attacked the father-of-one again, this time killing him.
His 31-year-old partner tried to save him, and suffered wounds to her hands, before fleeing with their young child to call police.
An autopsy showed El Makouli had been stabbed 17 times.
Prosecutors confirmed that a man had been charged with "murder, attempted murder and possession of drugs", before being committed to a psychiatric hospital in nearby Montfavet.
"The Islamophobic aspect will be investigated when we interview this boy who claims to have heard voices," a spokesman said.
Observatory president Abdallah Zekri said it was "a horrible Islamophobic attack" and claimed the victim's partner was clear about what the man shouted.
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