A 47-year-old man, suspected of having been in contact with the assailant who killed three people in the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption basilica in Nice, was taken into police custody on Thursday evening, he learned. 'AFP Friday, October 30 from judicial source.
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The alleged perpetrator of the fatal knife attack on a man and two women is a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in France on October 9 from Italy. The man in custody is suspected of having been in contact with him the day before the events, said the judicial source, confirming information from the daily
Nice-Matin
.