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PARIS: A 47-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having been in contact with the perpetrator of the deadly knife attack on Thursday (October 29) in Nice, a judicial source said.
On Thursday, an attacker with a knife shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city before the police shot him and took him away.
The source said the 47-year-old man suspected of having been in contact with the attacker had been taken into custody late Thursday night, confirming an earlier report on BFM TV.
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France’s chief counterterrorism prosecutor, Jean-Francois Ricard, said the man suspected of carrying out the attack was a Tunisian, born in 1999, who had arrived in Europe on September 20 on Lampedusa, the Italian island off Tunis that it is an important landing point for migrants from Africa.
A Tunisian security source and a French police source named the alleged attacker as Brahim Aouissaoui.
Ricard said the alleged attacker had entered the city by train early Thursday morning.
