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The fourth detainee was arrested in Grasse, about 45 kilometers from Nice, and was placed under arrest around 14:00 GMT on suspicion of communicating with the Tunisian perpetrator of the attack, Ibrahim Al-Issawi, according to the source, who did not give no details about the identity of the detainees.
A 47-year-old suspect was arrested Thursday after he appeared alongside the attacker in CCTV footage on the eve of the attack.
The second suspect, the 35-year-old, was arrested in Nice on Friday night and detained pending an investigation.
And on Saturday, a French judicial source reported the arrest of a third person close to the second suspect, who in turn was arrested pending investigations in the case of the Nice attack.
The third suspect, 33, was present during a search at the home of the second suspect, his relative, on Friday night. The source said: “We are trying to clarify his role.”
Initial investigations indicate that Al-Issawi arrived in Nice “24 to 48 hours” before the knife attack, which resulted in three deaths, according to a source close to the investigation.
Another source close to the file told “Agence France Presse” on Saturday morning: “It is still too early to know if he has benefited from the complicity and what are his reasons for coming to France and when did this idea arise in him.”
The source confirmed that the two telephones of his personal effects “continued to analyze”, indicating that “the investigation by Tunisia” would be “decisive”.
A third source familiar with the investigations claimed that Al-Issawi may have arrived in Nice on Tuesday, while staying at least one night in one of the city’s buildings, and that surveillance cameras were monitoring him “near the church in the city. eve of the attack “.
Al-Issawi has judicial precedents in Tunisia ranging from public rights issues, violence and drugs, according to the Tunisian judiciary, which in turn launched investigations.
On Thursday morning, Al-Issawi entered a church in central Nice, where he massacred a 60-year-old woman and a 55-year-old clergyman. A 44-year-old Brazilian woman died after being stabbed several times in a nearby restaurant where she took refuge.
The municipal police took control of the crossing, fired several shots at him and they were transferred to the Pasteur Hospital in Nice, in a dangerous state. Investigators were unable to question him because he is in a coma.
Al-Issawi had left his hometown of Sfax in mid-September, where he lived with his family.
It illegally arrived in Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa on September 20, before moving to Bari in southern Italy on October 9.
His mother says that “two and a half years ago, he began to pray and move only between work, the mosque and home, and not sitting with anyone” in the neighborhood.
