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Two people are beheaded and several others injured in a terrorist knife attack on a church in Nice before the attacker is shot and arrested.
- At least two people were killed and several more wounded after a knife attack on a Nice cathedral
- The city’s mayor said ‘everything suggests a terrorist attack’ after the knife attack started around 9 a.m. local time
- Police rushed to cordon off the area and arrested the perpetrator, according to local reports.
- It comes fifteen days after the master was beheaded near Paris; a month after the stabbings near Charlie Hebdo’s offices
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At least two people were killed and several others were injured in what appears to be a terrorist knife attack on a Nice cathedral.
The attack began around 9 a.m., according to local reports, before police invaded the area and arrested the attacker.
The mayor of the city, Christian Estrosi, tweeted: ‘I am in place with the [police] who arrested the author of the attack.
“I confirm that everything suggests a terrorist attack on the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice.”
At least two people died and several others were injured after what is believed to be a terrorist knife attack on the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice.
The attack is believed to have started around 9 a.m. before the police were called and the perpetrator arrested. The area is now cordoned off
The attack is the latest to hit France, after an 18-year-old Pakistani stabbed two wounded people outside the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The man has admitted to police that he was targeting the magazine for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Earlier this month, a French history teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded in another attack north of Paris, also over cartoons of the Prophet.
Paty was stabbed by an 18-year-old Chechen man after showing the cartoons to his students during a free speech lesson.
The parents of the school’s pupils had led a campaign against him before the attack took place. Seven have been arrested.
It also comes amid mass protests in many Islamic countries against Emmanuel Macron, after the French president spoke in defense of the cartoons.
Tweeting in Arabic, he wrote: “Nothing ever stops us. We respect all differences in the spirit of peace. We never accept hate speech and we defend rational debate.
“We will always defend human dignity and universal values.”
More to follow …
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