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Another suspect was arrested after the allegedly Islamist-motivated attack in Nice, which left three dead. The 35-year-old was taken into police custody for possible connections to the alleged attacker, reports the AFP news agency, citing judicial circles.
The France Info station had previously reported on the arrest. The man is therefore accused of having been in contact with the author the day before the attack. On Friday morning, investigators had already announced the arrest of a 47-year-old who was also suspected of having been in contact with the attacker shortly before the crime.
In the attack on Thursday morning on the Notre-Dame Basilica, initially a man and a woman were killed; 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. He had recently entered France from Italy.
The attackers apparently yelled “Allahu Akbar”
According to the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, the attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) several times before the police shot him and injured him. 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.”
Tunisian authorities are also investigating
Counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said Thursday night that investigators wanted to find out if the perpetrator had been supported by accomplices. The alleged attacker arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa on September 20 and arrived in Nice by train on Thursday morning.
Tunisian authorities are also investigating the suspect. Under the country’s law, every Tunisian who is involved in acts of terrorism, whether at home or abroad, said a Tunisian judicial spokesman on Thursday evening. The objective is to determine if the perpetrator may have had followers in Tunisia.
