“Nice didn't need that!
"More than four years after the truck attack which left 86 dead on the Promenade des Anglais on July 14, 2016, Fanny, a resident of the north of the Alpes-Maritimes commune, is in shock this Thursday, October 29 after the knife attack in the morning.
Her colleagues, who have their offices near the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption basilica, warned her earlier that "something was happening".
"They heard several shots, some spoke of a hostage taking ..."
Nobody knows yet, but these detonations, the first of which sounded at 8:58 am, are those of the shots fired by municipal police against the alleged assailant.
The man runs away.
It was finally neutralized on one side of the building, according to the town hall, after someone triggered a warning terminal installed in the area and connected to the municipal police.
Injured, the arrested suspect is hospitalized.
A stunned and bruised crowd
Valentin, too, did not immediately understand what was going on.
“I arrived in the area, I saw a crowd movement and a woman in tears.
I arrested an elderly couple who told me that there was an attack, ”he testifies, his voice trembling.
Within minutes, information of a "very serious event" spreads throughout the city.
An important security device is set up around the place of Catholic worship.
Part of Avenue Jean-Médecin, the town's largest commercial artery, is cordoned off by heavily armed men.
Dramatic coincidence, it is in this same street that soldiers of the Sentinel device were attacked with a knife on February 3, 2015.
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While in the distance, police officers in white coats of forensic identity enter the basilica, the curious approach the rubalises.
In number.
Often flabbergasted.
Stunned to relive the horror and dark atmosphere of an attack like that of the seafront, always present in the minds.
Tears are streaming down some faces.
"A caricature never killed someone"
But also, very quickly anger as the details of the triple assassination, which will be qualified by President Emmanuel Macron as an “Islamist terrorist attack”, are broadcast on smartphones.
“In France, there is no place for these people!
yells this Comorian, living in Nice.
Watch me, film!
I take off my mask!
I am a Muslim, I ask all Muslims to come and sleep at Notre Dame, demonstrate, sleep on the floor, to say that enough is enough!
"You are right, we are here", react other people in an increasingly dense crowd.
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Michel, a liberal nurse, is also appalled.
“Right now, we should have peace in the world,” he said, “we are facing violence, it's getting worse and worse and it will get worse”.
“We are horrified, I am a Muslim.
A cartoon has never killed anyone.
If someone commits a sin, their god will have to judge them, not me.
It is despicable.
I am very angry.
We don't know if the person next to us is going to kill us, ”she blurted out, showing a video of her daughter, attacked and beaten a few days earlier to steal her bag… very close to the basilica.
A little further, two faithful of this church, inconsolable, cannot take their eyes off the site.
“Maybe the confinement saved us, there were services scheduled for Friday.
We could all have been there… ”
