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Three people were killed during the terror attack in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Nice on Thursday.
One of them was the mother of three Simone Barreto Silva, 44.
– Tell my children that I love them, he told the ambulance staff before he died.
Photo: Daniel Cole / TT NEWS AGENCY
Flowers and candles outside Notre Dame.
Three people were killed in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Nice on Thursday. The incident was branded a terrorist attack by French President Emanuel Macron, and now Gerald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, is warning that there could be more attacks in the country.
– We are at war with an enemy that exists both inside and outside France, he says.
She was killed in the attack
But what is clear now is that three people have died after the attack. One of them was the mother of three Simone Barreto Silva, 44 years old.
According to The Guardian, he was born in Brazil but has lived in France for decades. On Thursday, he was heading to church to pray when he was a victim of the terrorist attack.
It is said that she was seriously injured in the attack, but managed to escape from the cathedral. However, he collapsed in a nearby bar. To the medical personnel on the scene, she had one thing to say right before she died:
“Tell my kids that I love them,” he told The Guardian.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry commented on the incident in a statement. “The Brazilian government regrets that one of the deaths is a 44-year-old Brazilian, mother of three who lives in France,” they wrote in a press release.
The father of two was a victim
The father of two Vincent Loqués, 55, was also a victim of the terror in Nice.
According to The Guardian, he was a devout Catholic and had worked in the Church for more than ten years.
Laura Male was a member of the same congregation Vincent Loqués worked for.
– I’m so surprised. I imagine him still going and lighting the candles and now I think he’s gone, he says according to The Guardian.
The third victim has not yet been identified, but according to police, it is a 60-year-old woman who had gone to the cathedral early in the morning to pray when she was brutally attacked inside the church.
Two men arrested
Two men have been arrested after the attack on the cathedral. According to the AP news agency, one of them is a 21-year-old Tunisian named Ibrahim Issaoui. He should have been arrested at the scene after the incident.
On Friday morning, the police announced that another man, 47, had been arrested on suspicion of his involvement in the incident. How the man was linked to the attack is still unclear, but he is said to have had contact with the 21-year-old suspect the night before the incident.
Ibrahim Issaoui is said to have yelled “Allahu akbar” when he attacked the church visitors. He is said to have been carrying three knives, two telephones and a Koran during the attack, according to TT.
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