French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday night that Europe was “shocked” after the “Islamic terrorist attack” in Brussels.

“A few minutes ago, it was Brussels that was hit again by an Islamist terrorist attack, which appears, as we speak, to have claimed the lives of at least two more Europeans, two Swedes. Our Europe is shocked,” Emmanuel Macron said during a visit to Tirana, as he sat down to an official dinner hosted by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.

In his remarks, the French president referred to the killing on Friday of a teacher, Dominique Bernard, by a radicalized youth at a high school in Arras, in northern France.

“I am here with you as France has been hit again by a terrorist attack late last week that claimed a French teacher,” he said.

“Barbarism sought to strike again (…) those who are torch bearers, who teach this language which for centuries has carried lights, values, hopes”, he added.