French police have arrested a third man after the Nice attack earlier this week. He is suspected of having had contact with the perpetrator on the eve of the attack.
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The 47-year-old man has been arrested for the time being only because he had contact with the perpetrator, according to the French media. There is still no indication that he was involved in the murders that killed three people. He will be heard, it says.
The perpetrator himself, who was seriously injured by several police bullets in the attack, is still in hospital. It concerns a Tunisian who has not stayed in France for a long time. He was not known to the police or intelligence services and had not attempted to seek asylum in France. Did he deliberately come to France to carry out an attack, or was that seed planted by the worldwide polemic over the cartoons of Mohammed and Macron’s plan of action against radical Islam? Many questions remain unanswered.
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So three people were killed in the terror attack. Vincent Loqués (55 years old), father of two daughters and a devout Catholic, had been a sexton in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice for over ten years. Simone Barreto Silva, a 44-year-old Brazilian who has lived in France for a long time, also received several stabs. She fled to a nearby cafe where she succumbed to her injuries moments later. A third victim, a 60-year-old woman who came to pray in the morning, was partially beheaded. (read here)
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