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French police arrested a 47-year-old man on Thursday night who was suspected of having contacted the author of the attack in which three people (including a Brazilian) died in a church in the city of Nice. .
The perpetrator of the knife attack is a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in France on 9 October from Italy.
Video records sounds of gunfire in police action at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice
The individual detained Thursday is suspected of maintaining contact with the attacker on the eve of the attack, said a judicial source heard by France Presse. The newspaper “Nice-Matin” published the same information.
The attacker, armed with a knife, invaded the basilica and beheaded a woman and the sacristan. The third victim, the Brazilian Simone Barreto Silva, 44, was seriously injured, but managed to escape to a restaurant next to the temple. She did not resist and died shortly after.
Brazilian Simone Barreto Silva was killed in the attack on the Nice Basilica – Photo: Playback / Facebook / Simone Barreto Silva
The criminal, who according to a source close to the investigation was identified as Brahim Aouissaoui, repeatedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great). He was wounded by at least six shots during the police intervention and is hospitalized.
What we already know about the knife attack in Nice
Beheading of Professor Samuel Paty
The attack came less than two weeks after the murder by beheading of Professor Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a small town 50 kilometers from Paris, for showing his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson on freedom of expression.
The french government raised the level of security throughout the country to “attack urgency”, which corresponds to a state of maximum alertand increased from 3,000 to 7,000 the military patrolling the streets, especially to protect the places of worship on the eve of the Catholic feast of All Saints on Sunday.
France has suffered high-impact terrorist attacks since 2015, when an extremist attack on January 7 against the satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo” killed 12 people. On November 13 of the same year, a jihadist commando carried out coordinated attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
Nice was attacked on July 14, 2016 left 86 dead, when a man deliberately drove a truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, the French national date.
