The police continued their findings, Thursday evening, near the basilica.

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VALERY HACHE / AFP

A 47-year-old man, suspected of having been in contact with the assailant who killed three people in the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption basilica in Nice, was taken into police custody on Thursday evening, he said. - we learned Friday from a judicial source.

The alleged perpetrator of the fatal knife attack on a man and two women is a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in France on October 9 from Italy.

The man in custody is suspected of having been in contact with him the day before the events, said the judicial source, confirming information from the daily

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