France: several victims in a knife attack in Nice, the author arrested

Two people were killed this Thursday morning, October 29, in a knife attack near the Notre-Dame church in Nice, in the south of France.

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Two people died this Thursday morning in an attack on Notre-Dame church, according to a spokesperson for the national police.

Several other people were injured.

The author of the attack was injured and arrested, according to the same source.

GĂ©rald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, organized a crisis meeting at Place Beauvau in Paris.

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Prime Minister Jean Castex left the National Assembly where he had come to specify the arrangements decided for the implementation of the reconfinement to go to the crisis unit set up at the Ministry of the Interior after the knife attack which killed two people in Nice.

I can, once again in the very difficult circumstances that our country is going through, in the hardships it is undergoing, only call on the whole of the national representation to unity and cohesion

 ", said the chief. from government to deputies.

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