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Terrorist attack in Nice: police take third suspect into custody

2020-10-31T10:17:37.868Z


The role of the 33-year-old is unclear: French investigators have taken a third man into custody after the attack in Nice. The alleged stabber is in critical condition in the clinic.


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The French police took a third suspect into custody with three dead after the allegedly Islamist-motivated attack in Nice.

The 33-year-old was on Friday evening during the search with another suspect in his apartment, it was said on Saturday from French judicial circles.

"We're trying to clarify his role in the whole thing."

There are now a total of three men in police custody.

The police had previously arrested a 35-year-old who is suspected of having been in contact with the alleged bomber the day before the attack.

A 47-year-old is also charged with this, he is also in custody.

The attacker first killed a man and a woman on Thursday in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice in the south of France;

an injured woman was able to flee to a bar but died there from her injuries.

According to the investigators, the alleged perpetrator is a 21-year-old Tunisian named Brahim Issaoui.

He had only recently entered France from Italy.

Interior Minister speaks of "war against Islamist ideology"

According to Nice's mayor Christian Estrosi, the attacker is said to have shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) several times before the police shot him and wounded him with gunfire.

Because of his serious injuries, he could not initially be questioned.

In France, the anti-terrorist prosecutor is investigating the case.

The authorities in Tunisia also opened an investigation.

France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin recently expressed concern that there would be further incidents such as "these terrible attacks" after the fatal knife attack in Nice.

France is in a "war against Islamist ideology," he told RTL radio station.

"We are in a war against an enemy that is both inside and outside."

Counter-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said on Thursday evening that investigators wanted to find out whether the perpetrator had been supported by accomplices.

The Tunisian authorities are also investigating the suspect.

According to the law of the country, every Tunisian who is involved in acts of terrorism will be prosecuted, whether domestically or abroad, said a Tunisian judiciary.

The attack occurred less than two weeks after the French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded.

He was killed in Paris by a suspected Islamist of Chechen origin on the street with a knife.

In class, the teacher had used controversial Mohammed cartoons on the subject of freedom of expression.

The French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday the radio station France Inter: "I don't like these cartoons".

But he defends the right to publish them.

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Source: spiegel

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