Good murderer identified as Tunisian who entered France from Italy

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The French counter-terrorism prosecutor said the man who killed three people in a Nice church was a Tunisian in his 20s who entered the country from Italy.

Jean-Francois Ricard told a press conference that the man arrived in Italy arriving on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on September 20 and traveled to Paris on October 9.

The travel information came from a document about the man from the Italian Red Cross, Ricard said. The attacker was seriously injured by the police and is being treated at a hospital.

The attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice was the third in two months in France that authorities attributed to Muslim extremists, including the beheading of a teacher.

It comes during a growing anger over the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that were republished in recent months by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, renewing the debate in France and the Muslim world about depictions that Muslims consider offensive but are protected by law. French freedom of expression.

Ricard detailed the gruesome scene found inside the Nice Basilica where a man and a woman were killed by the attacker. The third victim, a 44-year-old woman who managed to flee, died in a nearby restaurant.

A 60-year-old woman whose body was found outside the church suffered “a very deep throat cut, like a beheading,” Ricard said.

The 55-year-old also died after deep cuts to his throat, the prosecutor added.

A murder and attempted murder investigation was opened in connection with a terrorist enterprise, a common term for such crimes.

The prosecutor said the attacker, who was born in 1999, was not on the radar of intelligence agencies as a potential threat.

With AFP and PA report