Police officers guard the street leading to Notre-Dame church in Nice, this Thursday.

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Valery HACHE / AFP

  • A knife attack took place this Thursday morning in the Notre-Dame church in Nice.

    Three people died, according to a latest report.

  • Before the National Assembly, Jean Castex denounced a "despicable attack".

  • Images and videos are falsely presented as showing the attack on Friday.

A knife attack took place this Thursday morning in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice.

It left three dead and several injured, according to a latest report.

A suspect was arrested by city police and taken to hospital.

Images and videos are already circulating on the internet.

However, some do not show the attack this Friday.

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sorts the true from the false.

  • A photo of the interior of the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice?

    It's wrong

This photo is from 2018. - Twitter screenshot

This photo was taken in the Sainte-Croix abbey in Bordeaux after an act of vandalism in 2018. About forty chairs had been broken, said Father Bruno Tantini in

Sud-Ouest

.

  • A video shot in Nice claims to show the arrest of the suspect of the attack: it is false

Filmed from above, probably from a building, the images show a police officer pouncing on a woman to stop her, immediately followed by another colleague.

This arrest took place on August 12, 2020 in Nice, Place Saetone, in the district of Notre-Dame basilica, the site of the attack on Thursday.

According to

Nice-Matin

, this woman in her fifties fired in the air in front of a police station and allegedly targeted two municipal police officers.

She "does not seem to enjoy all of her faculties", according to the public security department, quoted by the regional daily.

  • This other video shows the arrest of a man… in Grenoble

This arrest took place in Grenoble.

- Twitter screenshot

Again wrongly presented as showing the arrest of the suspect of the attack on Thursday in Nice, this video was shot a year ago in front of the Grenoble train station.

The name of the cafe located behind the arrested man helps to locate the scene.

The man, who was armed with two knives, was arrested by the BAC, according to France Bleu.

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