Currently, three people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the attack perpetrated in the Basilica in Nice, Thursday October 29, 2020 and having killed three people.
After two first suspects arrested and placed in police custody, a third person, close to the second suspect arrested on Friday evening, was placed in police custody.
A first suspect, 47 years old and possible accomplice of the author of the attack, Ibrahim Aissaoui, was first arrested yesterday before being placed in police custody. He is suspected of having been in contact with the attacker the day before the attack and would have provided him with a phone.
A second person having been in contact with Ibrahim Aissaouite was also arrested and placed in police custody yesterday. He is a 35 -year -old man, suspected of having rubbed shoulders with the attacker the day before the attack.
The third suspect arrested and placed in police custody is a 33 -year -old man, who was present during the police searcher at the home of the second suspect suspected of having been in contact with the assailant the day before.
To date, investigators are still trying to determine if Ibrahim Aissaoui has been able to benefit from complicity, especially on the way in which he was able to obtain the two phones found in a bag containing personal effects.
According to the first elements of the investigation, Ibrahim Aissaoui, arrived in Nice the day before or two days before the knife attack, which left three dead.
He was identified as a Tunisian clandestine migrant who has just joined the European continent through the door of Lampedusa in Italy. Unknown to security services, the 21 -year -old suspect is not classified as a terrorist in Tunisia, he joined the Italian coast on October 9, aboard an illegal immigration boat.
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,” Mohsen Dali, a substitute for the Republic prosecutor and spokesperson for the Tunis court, told TAP.
In addition, the public prosecutor at the judicial center fighting against terrorism ordered the opening of an investigation to know the whole truth about the existence of the terrorist group “Al Mahdi in the South Tunisian” and its involvement in the terrorist attack perpetrated Thursday in Nice.
Two people were also arrested against the backdrop of the dissemination of a video of the Nice terrorist attack on social networks. An individual who appeared in the video claiming the terrorist attack, as well as the one who filmed it, were identified by the security and arrested services.
