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The official from the French terrorism prosecution service says the Nice attacker was carrying an Italian Red Cross document, a Tunisian born in 1999, and four officers found him and he was seriously injured in hospital.
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From the site of the attack on the French Church of Nice
Tunisian judicial spokesman Mohsen El-Daly told “Reuters” on Thursday that “the Tunisian suspect in the Nice attack in France is Ibrahim El-Ouesawi”, noting that “he was not classified as a militant before leaving Tunisia.”
A French police source said: “Al-Awassawi is also not classified as a militant in France.”
A Tunisian security source said El-Ouesawi came from the town of Sidi Omar Bouhajla in Kairouan and lived in Sfax, noting that “the police went to see his family today, Thursday, and are investigating them.”
He added that El-Ouesawi was born on March 29, 1999, left Tunisia on an illegal immigration trip on September 14, and arrived in Nice yesterday.
Earlier, the Tunisian judicial authorities announced the opening of an investigation into a suspected Tunisian involvement in a terrorist operation.
At the same time, the French prosecutor said, “4 officers confronted the attacker inside the church in Nice and shot him. He was seriously injured by police fire and is now in hospital.”
He added that “the author of the Nice attack carried a document from the Italian Red Cross and is a Tunisian born in 1999.” He also noted that “the forward entered Nice through Paris on October 9.”
French police said an attacker killed three people, including a woman, who was beheaded Thursday at a church in Nice, France, in an incident that the city’s mayor described as a “terrorist act.”
Nice Mayor Christian Estrozzi said on “Twitter” that the attack took place near or near the Notre Dame church, and that the police had arrested the attacker. Police confirmed that three were killed in the attack and others were injured.
The French counter-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation into the attack, which the city’s mayor, Christian Estrozzi, called an “Islamist-fascist attack.”
Two of the victims died in the church of Notre Dame, in the heart of the coastal city overlooking the Mediterranean, while the third died after being seriously injured in a nearby bar where he had taken refuge, according to a police source.
French President Emmanuel Macron said: “Our country was attacked by Islamic terrorism because of our values of freedom and our non-submission to terrorism.”
Macron spoke of the deployment of forces and the strengthening of the protection of places of worship, including churches, as well as the strengthening of the security of schools, announcing the strengthening of the protection of places of worship and schools after the attack. who killed three people in Nice.
In a brief statement from the site of the operation, he revealed that the number of soldiers deployed in the region as part of the “guard” operation would increase from 3,000 to 7,000 soldiers.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex promised that the Paris government would respond firmly to the attack in Nice, and announced that the authorities had raised the security alert level in buildings, transport and public places.
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