Police in Nice, October 29, 2020. -
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A Brazilian is among the three victims of the Nice attack, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday.
She was killed with a knife by a young Tunisian.
"The Brazilian government announces, with great sorrow, that one of those killed was a 44-year-old Brazilian mother of three living in France," the ministry said in a statement released in the evening.
The ministry, which told AFP that it could not at this stage say whether this woman also had French nationality, added that "the Brazilian government strongly regrets and condemns this atrocious attack".
Two other victims of the assailant
A Tunisian newly arrived in Europe killed three parishioners Monday morning with a knife inside the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption basilica in Nice, shouting "Allah Akbar".
The 44-year-old victim, who fled from the basilica, died "in a nearby restaurant, as a result of multiple wounds", according to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard.
Another victim was 60 years old and "had a very deep slit on the order of beheading", and the assailant also fatally slaughtered the sacristan, 55, father of two daughters.
"President Jair Bolsonaro, on behalf of the entire Brazilian nation, expresses his deep condolences to the relatives and friends of the fellow citizen murdered in Nice, as well as to those of the two other victims, and his solidarity with the people and the French government", continues the ministry.
“Brazil declares its firm rejection of any form of terrorism,” the statement concludes, “whatever the motivation and reaffirms its willingness to participate in the eradication of this scourge”.
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