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October 30, 2020 "Islamist terrorist" attack on the cathedral of Nice. A Tunisian, which sources of the Italian security apparatuses confirm arrived in Lampedusa on 20 September and transferred to Bari on 9 October, stabbed a 50-year-old man and two women of 44 and 70, the latter almost beheaded. Stopped, claimed to have acted alone. Maximum state of alert in France. Counter-terrorism strengthened, from 3 thousand to 7 thousand soldiers.



Brahim Aoussaoui, the 21-year-old Tunisian who killed three people in the cathedral of Nice,

was unknown to the secret services

. This was stated at a press conference by the French national anti-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-Francois Ricard, explaining that the young man's fingerprints were also not in the databases of the police.



Among the

personal effects

of Brahim Aoussaoui, an Italian Red Cross card was found containing his personal details. This was stated at a press conference by Jean-Francois Ricard, the head of the French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office. A Koran, two telephones, a knife with a blade of 17 centimeters and two other unused knives were also found, according to the French media.



There is a 44-year-old Brazilian woman, mother of three, among the three victims

of the attack in the Nice cathedral. This was announced by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. The woman, a resident of France, was seriously injured by the 21-year-old Tunisian's stab wounds and managed to flee to a nearby bar. "Tell my children I love them," she managed to say before she died.



"This terrorist has nothing to do with the Muslim religion. We must remain united, it is the only way to defeat terrorism.

Today I tell you that I am a Christian

". Strong words were pronounced by the Imam of Nice, Otmane Aissaoui, in reaction to the attack.



"

We European leaders are shocked

and saddened by the terrorist attacks in France. We condemn with the utmost firmness these attacks which represent just as many attacks on our common values". This was stated by the EU heads of state and government, a few hours after the terrorist attacks in Nice, in a joint statement published during their informal videoconference meeting dedicated to the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.



"

We are a family

, united in difficulties and uniting to defend the values ​​of our Union. To everyone I want to say: Thank you for your support". Thus the French President Emmanuel Macron on Twitter, reacting to the declaration of solidarity of the EU leaders for the attacks in Nice



Maximum attention on the French objectives in Italy

and alert for the personnel of the police forces engaged in the territory: this is the recommendation contained in a circular of the police chief, Franco Gabrielli, sent to prefects and quaestors after the attack in the cathedral of Nice. The attack was the focus of a meeting of the Antiterrorism Strategic Analysis Committee (Casa) during which intelligence reported the need to strengthen security measures in the vicinity of the French institutional headquarters, on which there is already the highest level of protection with fixed Army surveillance and dynamic police surveillance.



"If the landing in Lampedusa in September, the passage from Bari and then the escape are confirmed for the attacker in Nice, we ask for the resignation of the Minister of the Interior Lamorgese".

Matteo Salvini

gives voice to a center-right who returns to unite against the government and, above all, against the minister Lamorgese, after the attack in the church of Nice.