30 October 2020 21:58
A Tunisian group claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack. A second man was stopped on Thursday evening
The 21-year-old, landed in Lampedusa and then identified in Bari on 9 October, had recently made contact with his family. “He phoned me as soon as he arrived in France,” said his mother.
He had already stabbed a man in 2016 Brahim Issaoui had already stabbed a man in Tunisia. The facts date back to 2016, when he was 17, in the Tunisian city of Thyna, in the governorate of Sfax. The 21-year-old was arrested and ended up in jail.
Investigation into the attack: second arrest A second man was arrested in the French counter-terrorism investigation into the attack. Radio Europe 1 reports this, citing judicial sources. According to the broadcaster, the individual arrested had been in contact with the Tunisian killer who arrived in Nice a few days after entering Europe from Italy. Another individual suspected of having had contact with the terrorist was arrested on Thursday evening.
Minister of the Interior: “France is at war” “France is at war. We are at war with both an internal and external enemy. We are at war with Islamist ideology.” Thus the French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, in the aftermath of the attack in the Notre Dame basilica in Nice where three people lost their lives. “Islamism is a 21st century form of fascism, an extremism that we must fight,” he added.
A Tunisian group claims the terrorist attack The Tunis anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into the alleged existence of the “Al Mahdi group in southern Tunisia” and its potential involvement in the terrorist attack in Nice. The investigation began following a post on social media by a man who claims to belong to the terrorist network and who has claimed responsibility for the gesture.
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