The knife attacker who killed three people on Thursday in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice, is a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in Europe via Lampedusa in late September and in France in early October, AFP learned from sources close to the folder.
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This man, according to a "
local source close to the matter
", is called Brahim Aoussaoui.
Not seeking asylum in France, he arrived by Lampedusa at the end of September where he had been quarantined by the Italian authorities before being subject to an obligation to leave Italian territory and left free, it was added.