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Yassin Issawi holds a photo of his brother, the terrorist in Nice
Reuters quoted a Tunisian judicial official as saying that the suspect in the Nice attack was arrested in 2016 as a minor due to violence and the use of a knife.
Mohsen El-Daly, a spokesman for the Tunisian Court of First Instance, said the court record refers to his arrest four years ago due to violence in the area where he resided as a minor.
On the other hand, the Tunisian Africa News Agency reported on Friday that the Tunisian authorities have allowed an investigation into whether there is a group called “Al-Mahdi” in southern Tunisia, and that it carried out the Nice attack. , after complaints related to the claim of authorship of the attack on social networks.
The agency said that the Prosecutor of the Antiterrorist Court of the Judicial Authority has authorized a specialized security unit to carry out these investigations.
The agency added that the unit will seek to find out if the organization is present and the credibility of the complaints made on social networks that it is responsible for the attack that occurred in the French city on Thursday.
The suspect beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice, Ibrahim El Ouissawi, a 21-year-old Tunisian who had recently immigrated to Europe.
