"He attacked the guard first," says Laurent Martin de Frémont, departmental secretary SGP-Police Unit (06), referring to the assailant who killed three people at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice.
"He also attacked a 60-year-old woman carrying out a decapitation", explains the police officer.
A third person, initially injured, also died outside the place of worship.
"We cannot and we must not get used to these words" beheading "," slaughtered woman ", it is not possible to hear that", insists Laurent Martin de Frémont.