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French police detained a third suspect with three deaths after the allegedly Islamist-motivated attack in Nice. The 33-year-old man was on Friday night during the search with another suspect in his apartment, he said Saturday from French judicial circles. “We are trying to clarify his role in the ensemble.”
There are now a total of three men in police custody. Police had previously arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of having been in contact with the alleged attacker the day before the attack. A 47-year-old man is also charged with this, he is also in custody.
The attacker killed a man and a woman for the first time on Thursday at the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice, southern France; an injured woman was able to flee to a bar, but died there from her injuries. According to investigators, the alleged perpetrator is a 21-year-old Tunisian named Brahim Issaoui. He had recently entered France from Italy.
Interior Minister speaks of “war against Islamist ideology”
According to the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, the attacker is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) several times before the police shot and shot him. Due to his serious injuries, he could not be questioned at first. In France, the antiterrorist prosecutor is investigating the case. The Tunisian authorities also opened an investigation.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin recently expressed concern about the possibility of more incidents such as “these terrible attacks” following 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 who is both within and without.”
In class, the teacher had used controversial cartoons of Muhammad on the subject of freedom of expression. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told France Inter radio station on Friday: “I don’t like these cartoons.” But defend the right to publish them.
