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PARIS, KOMPAS.com – A 44-year-old Brazilian mother left the last message to her son before she died because he was one of the 3 victims of the attack on the church in Nice, France, on Thursday (10/29/2020).
The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday (10/30/2020) that the woman was the mother of 3 young children.
He was seriously injured in an attack on the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, in southeastern France, by a 21-year-old Tunisian immigrant who had just arrived in the country.
In the attack he managed to escape to the nearest bar, but died shortly after, a police source said.
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The time of your last report Telegraph on Friday (10/30/2020), the woman had left a message for her children.
“Tell my children that I love them,” he said before he died, according to media reports from the French cable channel, TV BFM.
“The Brazilian government regrets to announce that one of the murdered victims was a 44-year-old Brazilian mother with 3 children, who lives in France,” said the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It was not confirmed whether he also had French citizenship or not.
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In the grisly nearly half-hour attack on the Notre-Dame basilica in central Nice, on the Mediterranean coast, the perpetrator used a 12-inch knife.
The knife was used to cut the throat of a 60-year-old woman in a decapitation operation, French authorities said.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin warned on Friday that France was embroiled in a war against Islamic ideology and the possibility of a more militant attack on French soil.
“We are fighting the enemy inside and out,” Darmanin told the radio. RTL.
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“We need to understand that there have been and will be other events like this terrible attack,” he continued.
A court source said a 47-year-old man was detained on Thursday night local time (10/29/2020) on suspicion of having been in contact with the assailant.
The chief anti-terrorist prosecutor, Jean-Francois Ricard, said the man suspected of carrying out the assault was a Tunisian born in 1999.
It arrived in Europe on September 20, 2020 in Lampedusa, an island in Italy, which is the main disembarkation point for migrants from Africa.
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Tunisian security sources and French police said the suspect in the attack was named Brahim Aouissaoui.
Ricard said the suspect in the attack entered the city by train on Thursday morning local time (10/29/2020).
Currently, he said, the suspect is in the hospital in critical condition.
The Nice attacks come less than two weeks after a school teacher outside Paris was beheaded by an 18-year-old assailant, who appeared to be angry at the teacher for displaying a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
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