Parliament yesterday held a minute’s silence to pay tribute to the victims of last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France as well as other attacks in Syria and Somalia, after Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil both condemned the atrocities and expressed their condolences to the victims’ families.

In a statement, Dr Muscat said this was not a war between religions because one of the attacks in Kuwait was against a mosque where people of different religions were praying. The best long-term solution was education and employment although one of the terrorists was a student who apparently had been trained in a Libyan camp.

The Prime Minister said that following last Friday’s tragedy, he had spoken to the Armed Forces of Malta and they told him they had no information that Malta could be a target – albeit nothing could be guaranteed.

In France the attacker was one person with a knife and truck – something which no one could have foreseen.

This meant one needed to strengthen the country’s intelligence and always be vigilant.

All precautions necessary were to be taken. However, one could not cause unnecessary alarm or change the daily routine.

What the Maltese could do was contact the security forces if something suspicious or unusual was observed.

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