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After the Nice attack, the highest level of terrorism alert applies in all of France. The attacker, wounded by police shooting, was arrested. President Macron visits the crime scene and finds clear words.
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the site of the attack in Nice.
What we know
- Three people died after being attacked with a knife in a church in Nice.
- The assailant was found by the police and is injured in hospital.
- Prime Minister Jean Castex has declared the highest level of terrorism warning.
- French President Emmanuel Macron announced during a visit to Nice that churches and schools would be more protected.
In an alleged terrorist attack, three people were killed in a knife attack in Nice on Thursday morning around 9 a.m. As Reuters reports, a woman is said to have been beheaded. The author called him “Allahu Akbar”. A man, the cathedral sigrist, and another woman also died. The attacker is said to be a 21-year-old Tunisian.
The police are securing the central area of Nice.
The writing took place in the church of Notre-Dame in the center of the city. The third victim is said to have sought protection in a nearby bar after the attack, according to the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, but succumbed to his injuries. Six other people were injured, the German press agency reported, citing police circles.
In the morning, the place of worship and the area were searched by the police and are still partially cordoned off. The population is advised to avoid the area.
According to the daily “Nice Matin”, the police “neutralized” the alleged perpetrator with shots, according to eyewitnesses after he ran out of the church into the green area behind the church. The man was taken to hospital injured. The country’s counterterrorism agency has also intervened.
Meanwhile, French Prime Minister Jean Castex has declared the highest terrorism alert level for the entire country. The so-called “Vigipirate Plan” provides for three alert levels: the normal state of “Vigilance”, the increase in “Sécurité renforcée – atentat risque” and the level of “emergency alert” now activated. The latter is usually activated immediately before a possible threat of attack or, as is now the case in Nice, immediately after an attack and enables extraordinary mobilization of resources in the fight against terrorism.
The Nation shares the pain and immense emotion of the families of the victims of Nice and of the entire Catholic community that was struck in the heart.
This attack, as cowardly as it is barbarous, is in mourning throughout the country.
Our response will be firm, relentless and immediate. pic.twitter.com/DMHdXZQM3v– Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) October 29, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Nice in the afternoon. He explained in the southern French coastal metropolis that the knife attack that killed three was an “Islamist terrorist attack.” Macron said France had been attacked and announced that churches and schools would be more protected. The army’s long-running national counterterrorism operation “Sentinelle” will increase from 3,000 to 7,000 troops.
Declaration after the terrorist attack in Nice. https://t.co/9UmVPYLDf7
– Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) October 29, 2020
Just two weeks ago, a teacher in a Paris suburb was beheaded by an Islamist extremist. The crime had caused horror throughout the country. Tens of thousands took to the streets to show their solidarity.
Nice was the scene of a terrorist attack in 2016 when a man drove a truck into the crowd on the Promenade des Anglais near the beach on the national holiday, July 14. At that time, 86 people died.
Stop in Avignon
There were other incidents in France, but initially a connection to the attack in Nice could not be confirmed. Police killed an alleged attacker in Avignon, southern France, who is said to have threatened passersby with a weapon. According to police circles, initially there was no evidence of a terrorist background. A man armed with a knife was arrested in Lyon. No one was injured, the man was known to security circles.
Terrorist attacks in France since 2015
(Reuters) Over the past five years, France has been repeatedly hit by terrorist attacks:
- On September 25, 2020, two people were injured in a knife attack in Paris near the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. A migrant from Pakistan was arrested after the crime.
- On October 3, 2019, a 45-year-old IT specialist working at the Paris police headquarters killed three policemen and a civilian employee before being shot by the police. He converted to Islam 10 years ago.
- On May 23, 2018, a gunman killed three people in southwestern France after stealing a car, shooting oncoming police and taking hostages in a supermarket. He was shot dead when police stormed the building.
- On July 26, 2016, two attackers killed a priest and wounded another hostage in a church in northern France. Then the police shot them. President François Hollande declared that the kidnappers were members of the terrorist militia of the Islamic State.
- On July 14, 2016, a national holiday, a gunman rushed into a crowd in Nice with a truck, killing a total of 86 people. The Islamic State terrorist militia took responsibility for the attack. The attacker himself was a Frenchman born in Tunisia.
- On June 14, 2016, a Frenchman of Moroccan origin stabbed a policeman outside his home in a Paris suburb and also killed his partner, who also worked for the police. The attacker claimed to have acted on behalf of the Islamic State terror group.
- On November 13, 2015, Paris was rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. A total of 130 people died and 368 were injured. Two of the 10 attackers were Belgian citizens and three French.
- On January 7, 2015, two Islamist hitmen broke into the newsroom of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and murdered 12 people there. Another attacker killed a policewoman the next day and took hostages in a supermarket on January 9, killing four of them before being shot by the police themselves.
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