Bloody attack on the white weapon near the church of Notre-Dame, Nice (BFM-TV) . And France falls back into terror. The toll is 3 dead and several injured . The death bells rang for a long time at 3pm in churches across France. The bomber, stopped, had landed in Lampedusa.
He would be called Brahim Aoussaoui, he is 21 years old, and he spoke in Arabic to the police who neutralized him. At the hospital he said he acted alone. “The perpetrator of the attack, while being medicated after being wounded by the police, continued to shout without interruption Allah Akbar” : according to the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, for whom “there is no doubt about the nature of the attack “.
The Nice killer entered Nice station at 6:29 am and left almost two hours later after changing his clothes. This was stated by the anti-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-Francois Ricard. The prosecutor urged the media to be cautious about the name of the suspect, who is in the hospital with a confidential prognosis. Ricard confirmed that the Tunisian had a document issued by the Italian Red Cross in his pocket, and that he is investigating his path and any complications that allowed him to arrive in France from Bari, where his traces have been lost after 9 October. . In any case, the man is unknown to the French intelligence services and his fingerprints are not in the file of the wanted persons.
Four policemen entered the church where the Nice killer had just attacked three people, the man came forward “threateningly, shouting Allah Akbar” and the policemen first used an electric gun, then opened fire. The killer landed in Lampedusa together with other migrants . It is not the first time that a Tunisian landed in Italy and then became the protagonist of acts of terrorism in Europe: in February 2011, with Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister and Roberto Maroni as Minister of the Interior, I arrived in Lampedusa again – together with thousands of Tunisians – Anis Amri, the perpetrator of the Berlin Christmas market massacre in 2016. Upon landing, Amri declared himself a minor and was transferred to a center for minors in Sicily.
The Nice killer would have arrived in Italy on 20 September and on the following 9 October he would have been transferred to a center for migrants in Bari, after the mandatory quarantine for all those who disembark. According to what is learned from sources of the security apparatus, these would be the first two stages of the Tunisian in our country. Investigators and 007 are now reconstructing all the subsequent movements and ways that allowed the man to leave the Center.
The Nice killer “had never been reported by the Tunisian authorities, unlike others, and was not even reported in terms of security in the intelligence channels”, we learn from sources of the Interior Ministry from which confirmation that the 21-year-old and landed in Lampedusa on 20 September and 9 October and was the recipient of a rejection decree with the order of the commissioner to leave Italy within 7 days. Who are the victims of the attack – The victims are a 60-year-old woman, beheaded, the sexton deeply wounded in the throat, 55, and another woman, 44, who was injured and managed to flee but died shortly after in a bar where she had taken refuge. Two cell phones and a Koran were found among the killer’s personal belongings.
“Tell my children that I love them”: these are the last words before the dead woman in the bar dies. The woman was badly hit in the throat by the assailant, who was unable to behead her. THE PHOTODIRECT
But fear hits the whole of France again, not just Nice. An Afghan armed with a knife was arrested in Lyon in central France.
A man armed with a weapon, possibly a toy, was killed by police in Avignon near the Montfavet psychiatric hospital. The man allegedly tried to attack policemen in the street but the episode – it was later learned – is not the subject of investigations by the anti-terrorism prosecutor.
Also the French consulate in Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, was attacked: a guard was injured by a Saudi assailant. This was reported by the Saudi media. France reactivates the state of emergency attacks . The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has announced the passage from 3,000 to 7,000 of the soldiers of the ‘Sentinelle’ operation, in charge of armed anti-terrorism surveillance by the army. Since 2015, after the attacks, the military has been called to reinforce the surveillance in the streets and at sensitive places. Macron spoke of an “Islamist terrorist attack” and guaranteed “support for Catholics from all over the country”.
The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, asked that “all churches be placed under surveillance or closed, as well as all other places of worship in the city”. “When it is too much and too much – said Estrosi – now and now that France puts aside the rules of peace to definitively annihilate Islam-fascism in our territory”. France, attack in Nice: police and rescue on the spot The Bishops’ Conference of France condemned the attack as an “unspeakable” act and stressed that “Christians must not become a target to be shot down”. Strong condemnation of the world to what is happening in France. From the Pope, according to whom terrorism and violence can never be accepted, to Turkey: ‘No reason justifies violence’. The French Council of the Muslim cult strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Nice. “As a sign of mourning and solidarity with the victims and their loved ones”, we read on Twitter, he invites the “Muslims of France to cancel all the holidays of the Malwid festival”. Turkey also condemns the attack “strongly”.
