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As investigations continue with the suspects who were recently arrested in the horrendous attack on the tourist city of Nice in southeastern France on October 29, new data emerged about the Tunisian attacker, Ibrahim Aouissawi, who attacked several people inside. from Nice Cathedral, killing 3 people. .
The National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office reported that the 21-year-old phone was found on the 21-year-old phone of the extremist who killed teacher Samuel Patty, and an audio recording that describes France as an “unfaithful country.
Other ISIS images
He also explained that when searching the phone of the young Tunisian who had been hit by police bullets, “images related” to ISIS were also discovered, which led to the opening of a judicial investigation into “murder and attempted murder linked to to a terrorist organization. “
In addition, the Public Ministry explained that “at this stage the parties who were in operational contact with the interested party are also investigated and it is suspected that they facilitated the commission of the act.” He added that the investigations will focus on “ensuring that he can benefit from complicity or any support in his criminal enterprise, be it in France, Italy or Tunisia.”
It should be noted that the author of the attack, who was born in March 1999 in the Tunisian governorate of Sfax and tested positive for Covid-19, is receiving treatment in Paris and “has not yet been heard,” according to the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office.
In addition, the office revealed that investigators who found on Awassawi’s phone a photo of Abdullah Anzurov, who beheaded Samuel Patty on October 16 in a Paris suburb, had also been on his way since his departure from Tunis by boat on October 19. of September.
Stone in Italy … and tourism in Sicily
Members of his family gathered by Al Arabiya confirmed that he had arrived on the island of Lampedusa on September 20, but was quarantined on a ship until October 9 when he landed in Bari and immediately received an order to leave Italian territory.
However, the young man spent 14 days in Sicily between October 12 and 26, before arriving in Rome at 27 in the morning and leaving at night for the city of Nice.
Then, two days after his arrival, he carried out his attack, killing two worshipers and a cleric who were in the church in Benis with a knife, and subsequently suffered serious injuries after being shot by the police.
This attack is reported to be the third in France since early September.
