CRS in Nice, in front of Notre-Dame de Nice church, October 31, 2020. -
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The investigation continues after the Nice attack, which killed three people on Thursday.
The police custody of two men, including a Tunisian suspected of having shared the migratory journey of the assailant of the Notre-Dame basilica, continued this Monday morning while a third individual was released.
This second suspect is a 29-year-old man who is said to have traveled with the alleged perpetrator of the knife attack, his compatriot Brahim Issaoui, 21, aboard a boat which docked on September 20 on the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to a source familiar with the matter.
He was arrested on Saturday in Grasse.
In the accommodation he occupied, two men aged 25 and 63 were arrested a few hours later.
The older one was released without charges against him at this stage, the other remains in police custody.
"His vital prognosis would no longer be engaged"
Brahim Issaoui, seriously injured by gunshot Thursday, was still hospitalized on Monday.
"His life-threatening prognosis would no longer be engaged," said a source familiar with the matter, investigators hoping to be able to question him during the day.
Brahim Issaoui had left in mid-September the city of Sfax, in central Tunisia, where he lived with his family.
Arrived in Lampedusa, he would have been placed in quarantine with nearly 400 migrants on the ferry “Rhapsody” according to the Italian press, before disembarking on the mainland in Bari, in southern Italy, on October 9.
The investigation was able to determine that he arrived in Nice on Tuesday.
He was spotted by CCTV cameras near the basilica the day before the incident.
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