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Paris: On Saturday, French authorities arrested a 29-year-old Tunisian, bringing the number of detainees to four in the case of the attack that targeted a church Thursday in Nice, southern France, according to a judicial source.
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 attacker, Ibrahim Al-Issawi, according to the source, who did not give any details. on the identity of the detainees.
The first suspect was a 47-year-old man who was arrested Thursday after appearing 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.
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. “We are trying to clarify his role,” the source said.
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 AFP on Saturday morning: “It is still too early to know if he benefited from his complicity, what were his reasons for coming to France and when this idea arose in him.”
The source said that the two telephones of his personal effects “continued to analyze”, indicating that “the investigation by the Tunisian side” 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 “in the vicinity of the church. on the 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, Issawi entered a church in central Nice, where he murdered a 60-year-old woman and the 55-year-old church sailor. 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 moved alone between work, the mosque and home, and did not sit with anyone” from the neighborhood.
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