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French police sources revealed the identity of the perpetrator of the attack that killed 3 people in the church of Notre Dame in Nice, France.
Informed sources told AFP and Reuters that the attacker was a 21-year-old Tunisian, who arrived in Europe from the Italian island of Lampedusa at the end of last September and to France earlier this month.
Judicial sources said, in response to questions from Agence France-Presse, that the identity of the attacker was not officially confirmed, but the young man said, according to a source close to the file named Ibrahim Awsaoui, that it was confirmed by a second source.
Sources added that Awassawi arrived in France from Lampedusa in Italy, where local authorities required him to quarantine him before being forced to leave Italian territory and be released. He did not apply for asylum in France.
According to another source, the investigators had nothing in their possession except a file from the Italian Red Cross, which indicated that his name was Ibrahim Ouesawi.
Reuters quoted a Tunisian judicial spokesperson for Reuters on Thursday as saying that Tunisia’s counter-terrorism service had opened an investigation into suspected Tunisian involvement in the Nice attack.
Mohsen El-Daly told Reuters that “the judicial antiterrorist pole has opened a forensic investigation into the suspicion of Tunisian participation in the terrorist attack in Nice.”
The French police announced today, Thursday, the death of 3 people and wounding others, in a knife attack in the southern city of Nice, while a fourth “threatened bystanders” were killed by police bullets near the city of Avignon.
The attack took place in the vicinity of the “Notre Dame” church in the city center at nine o’clock local time.
Police said a man and a woman were killed in the “Notre Dame” church, while a third died after being seriously injured in a nearby bar where he had taken refuge.
The incident comes as France has recently witnessed a controversy over the statements of a large number of politicians targeting Islam and Muslims, following the murder of a history teacher named Samuel Patty (47 years old), on October 16, At the hands of a French student (18 years old) angered by Patti he showed “offensive” cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students, demanding freedom of expression.
The French president described Bate’s assassination that day as undermining freedom of expression and an “Islamic terrorist attack,” and vowed to address this “terrorism,” as he put it.
His speech was widely rejected in Islamic countries and his statements were described as incitement to hatred and a campaign was launched to boycott French products in the Arab and Islamic world.
