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NICE, KOMPAS.com – The perpetrator of the knife attack that killed three people at the Church of Notre-Dame in Nice, France, was reportedly seriously injured.
Launching Associated Press (AP) On Friday (10/30/2020), according to French authorities, Ibrahim Issaoui (21), the terrorist who killed 3 victims in the church, was seriously injured and hospitalized with life-threatening conditions.
French authorities have called the attack “Islamic terrorism” and prosecutors in France and Tunisia, the country of origin of the attackers, are investigating.
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Meanwhile, TV Al Arabiya Saudi-owned property who interviewed the terrorists’ mother on Friday (10/30/2020) said the woman was shocked by the incident.
From the province of Sfax, Tunisia, the perpetrator’s mother was crying and said she was very surprised when she heard what her son was doing in France.
“You don’t speak French, you don’t know anyone there, you will live alone there, why, why did you go there?” the woman asked her son by phone before the attack occurred.
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The brother of the terrorists said Al arabiya that Issaoui informed his family that he would sleep in front of the church and sent them a photo showing him in the cathedral, where he launched his attack.
“He didn’t say anything to me,” Issaoui’s brother said. Meanwhile, according to the neighbors of the perpetrator’s family, Ibrahim Issaoui is a mechanic working odd jobs and there are no signs of radicalization.
French counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said the perpetrator was a Tunisian who was born in 1999 and arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the main landing point for migrants crossing by boat from North Africa on September 20, 2020.
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From there, Issaoui traveled to Bari, a port city in southern Italy on October 9. It is not clear when he arrived in the city of Nice.
Tunisians fleeing economic stress during the coronavirus outbreak are the largest contingent of migrants to land in Italy this year.
Italian media reported that from Lampedusa, where Issaoui was one of 1,300 migrants who arrived on September 20, he was stationed with 800 others on a virus quarantine ship in Puglia.
The Italian Interior Minister confirmed on Friday that Issaoui was ordered to leave Italy on October 9.
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