The author of the Nice attack, perpetrated yesterday Thursday, October 29, would be a Tunisian clandestine migrant who has just reached the European continent via Lampedusa. Indeed, according to several French media, it would be a 21 -year -old Tunisian who committed this attack having left three dead.
The public prosecutor at the judicial center fight against terrorism said yesterday that it had opened a judicial information against anyone who would be involved in a murder or in terrorist crimes, and this following the attack on the knife which took place this Thursday in Nice, whose assailant would be a Tunisian.
This legal action comes in application of article 83 of the organic law relating to the fight against terrorism and money laundering “, told TAP, Mohsen Dali, substitute for the public prosecutor and spokesperson for the Tunis court of first instance.
This law, he added, will allow the court of first instance to examine the terrorist crimes committed outside the national territory and against Tunisian persons and interests.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the assailant is a Tunisian, he assures.
Dali said the public prosecutor at the judicial center combat terrorism had entrusted this case to a specialized security unit for more research and investigation.
At least three people were killed, at least one throatless on Thursday, inside the Notre-Dame de Nice basilica during a knife attack, the author of which was arrested.