A soldier from Operation Sentinel in front of the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption basilica, in Nice, November 3, 2020 -
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His hearing must have been delayed for several days.
The author of the knife attack in the basilica of Nice, which left three dead, has seen his state of health deteriorate in recent hours, we learned from sources close to the investigation.
The vital prognosis of Brahim Issaoui, 21, tested positive for the coronavirus, was still engaged on Wednesday, while five other people are in police custody.
A 29-year-old Tunisian arrested Tuesday morning in Sarcelles, in Val-d'Oise, the three people who hosted him as well as another 29-year-old Tunisian, arrested in Grasse on Saturday are still heard by investigators.
A suspected contact and accompanying person
If the first is suspected of having had exchanges with the assailant during his migratory journey, the last, he would have traveled directly with Brahim Issaoui on board the boat which docked at Lampedusa at the end of September, then to have transited with him as far as France.
Seriously wounded by gunshots while threatening police officers in the church after the attack, the alleged perpetrator of the knife attack is hospitalized in Nice and could not yet be heard by those responsible for the investigation .
Our file on the attack in Nice
The first investigations were able to determine that he had left the city of Sfax (Tunisia) in mid-September, before arriving in Nice on October 27, two days before the attack.
Early on the morning of the incident, he went to a prayer room a few hundred yards away, before heading to the basilica, where he killed three people aged 44 to 60.
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