A soldier from Operation Sentinel in front of the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption basilica, in Nice, November 3, 2020 -

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The custody of a 17-year-old minor, suspected of having been in contact by courier with Brahim Aouissaoui, the author of the knife attack which killed three people on Thursday, October 29, was lifted without prosecution. Stadium.

The young man was arrested Wednesday in Seine-Saint-Denis.

There is currently no one in custody in this case.

In total, eleven people have been placed in police custody and then released since the start of the investigation, opened by the anti-terrorism prosecution, in particular for "assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and coordinated by the Anti-terrorism Sub-Directorate (Sdat).

The perpetrator of the attack transferred to Paris

On Friday, Brahim Aouissaoui, a 21-year-old Tunisian seriously injured during his arrest and also tested positive for the coronavirus, was transferred by plane and under high security from Nice to Paris.

Aouissaoui, whose vital prognosis is still in progress, was hospitalized in Paris, according to a source familiar with the matter.

He still could not be heard by investigators.

He had left clandestinely in mid-September the city of Sfax, in central Tunisia, where he lived with his family and worked as a motorcycle repairer.

Tribute to the victims this Saturday

After crossing the Mediterranean and arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa, Brahim Aouissaoui would have been placed in quarantine with nearly 400 migrants on the “Rhapsody” ferry, according to the Italian press, before disembarking on the mainland in Bari, in south-eastern Italy on October 9.

A source close to the investigation had specified that he then went to Sicily, before joining France.

The investigation was able to determine that he had arrived in Nice on Tuesday October 27, two days before the attack.

Early on the morning of the incident, he went to a prayer room located a few hundred meters behind Nice central station.

He then headed for the Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, where he killed two women and the sacristan.

This terrorist attack is the third perpetrated in France since the republication in early September of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad by

Charlie Hebdo.

This Saturday, nine days after the knife attack, a national tribute chaired by Prime Minister Jean Castex is paid in the presence of the relatives of the three people killed on October 29.

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