French police announced on Saturday the arrest of a third person involved in the Nice stabbing attack, took place earlier Thursday, and resulted in the death of 3 persons and the injury of several others, according to Reuters.
A French security source revealed that the arrest took place on Friday.
It is worth mentioning that, the French prosecution official in terrorism cases, Jean-Francois Ricard, announced Thursday evening that the bomber of the Nice attack, who killed three people, and others who were wounded, arrived by a train carrying an Italian Red Cross document.
He added in a press conference from Nice that the man arrived in the city by train on Thursday morning, then went to the church where he stabbed and killed the church servant (55 years old) and beheaded a woman (60 years old), noting that he also stabbed another woman (44 years old) who managed to escape to a nearby café before she breathed her last.
He also explained that the attacker is a Tunisian born in 1999, and arrived on September 20 on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the main destination for migrants from Africa. Meanwhile, a Tunisian security source and a French police source revealed that the suspect’s name was Ibrahim El-Ouesawi.
He stated that the police arrived after that and confronted the attacker, shot him, and then he was transferred to hospital, in critical condition.
The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty by a man of Chechen origin.
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