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France’s National Counterterrorism Prosecutor’s Office said on Friday that a photo of the Islamic extremist who killed teacher Samuel Patty and an audio recording describing France as a “land of infidels” were found on the phone of the author of the attack on a church in Nice.
The attack targeted the Church of Our Lady in the city in northeastern France on October 29, leaving three dead.
The prosecution said that searching the phone of Tunisian Ibrahim Aouissawi, who had been hit by police bullets, also uncovered “photographs related” to the Islamic State, leading to the opening of a judicial investigation into “murder. and attempted murder linked to a terrorist organization. “
The Public Ministry explained that “at this stage of the investigations, no parties were identified who were in operational contact with the interested party, suspected of facilitating the commission of the act,” and added that the investigations would focus on “verifying the possibility that there may have been benefited from collusion or some support in his criminal enterprise, whether in France, Italy or Tunisia “.
The author of the attack, who was born in March 1999 and tested positive for Covid-19, is receiving treatment in the Paris region and “has not yet been heard,” according to the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office.
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 he left Tunis by boat on September 19. .
Ibrahim Ouissawi arrived on the island of Lampedusa a day later, where he was quarantined aboard a ship until October 9, when he landed in the city of Bari, and was immediately ordered to leave Italian territory.
After that, the man spent 14 days in Sicily between October 12 and 26, before arriving in Rome on October 27 and then Nice in the evening.
Two days later, he was killed with a prayer knife and a clergyman in the Church of Our Lady of Nice, after which he was seriously injured after being shot by the police.
This is the third attack in France since “Charlie Hebdo” magazine reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in early September.
