Tag: Nice

PARIS (AFP) — French authorities were on Saturday seeking to ascertain if a young Tunisian suspected of killing three people in a knife rampage inside a Nice church had outside help as police arrested a third man who could have been associated with him. Brahim Issaoui, 21, only arrived ...

A third person was taken into custody in France in connection with the knife attack which left three dead in Nice on Thursday, a police source said on Saturday.The arrest took place on Friday, the source added.An attacker beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church ...

A mother-of -three 'died like a warrior' after fighting off the Nice terrorist and raising the alarm about the attack, her distraught family and friends said last night.Simone Barreto Silva, a 44-year-old Brazil-born samba dancer turned care worker, managed to escape the Notre Dame Basilica despite being stabbed multiple ...

The last thing Ibrahim Issaoui, 21, said to his mother was that he was going to sleep rough on a piece of cardboard outside Nice’s Notre Dame basilica and after resting, find some work to keep himself afloat.Around the same time, he sent a voice message to a close ...

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday held a "productive meeting" with Alice Guitton, France's Director-General of International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS), during which they discussed Indo-Pacific region and maritime security, defence partnership and regional security cooperation. Shringla is in France on the first leg of his week-long three-nation ...

The Tunisian migrant suspected of stabbing three people to death at a church in the French city of Nice had turned to religion recently after teenage years where he was arrested for violence and had used alcohol and drugs, his family said Friday. Family members of Brahim Issaoui in ...

#Pakistan News The latest suspect was arrested following Thursday's church attack in Nice in which at least three people were stabbed to death. Forensic police officers inspect the scene of a knife attack at Notre Dame church in Nice, southern France on October 29, 2020. (AP) A new suspect ...

The investigation into a gruesome attack by a Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church had a second suspect in custody Friday, as France heightened its security alert amid religious and geopolitical tensions around cartoons mocking the Muslim prophet. Muslims held more anti-France protests across the ...

After the harrowing butchery in the Catholic cathedral in Nice, the city's mayor called for France to stop behaving as though it was a country at peace.Many commentators and academics bridle at talk of a war on domestic terrorism, calling instead for analysis of its causes.Perhaps they still believe ...

Leaders from around the world condemned a deadly knife attack on Thursday in Nice that left three people dead. French investigators are treating the attack as an act of terrorism.  The attack took place on the observance of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday. It is the third in France attributed to Islamists ...