Three days after the Nice attack, which left three dead, six people are currently in police custody.
Three new suspects were indeed arrested on Saturday evening in Grasse.
One of them is believed to be an acquaintance of the author.
Six people are in police custody in the investigation into the Nice attack, which left three dead on Thursday and once again plunged France into fear of terrorism.
Saturday evening, three new suspects were arrested: it is a Tunisian arrested in Grasse, who suspected of being an acquaintance of the author, as well as two other men aged 63 and 25, present at the home of the person arrested in Grasse.
Three suspects already in custody
On Thursday, a 47-year-old first suspect was arrested after he was seen alongside the assailant in CCTV footage the day before the attack.
He was still in custody on Saturday morning.
A second individual, aged 35, was arrested Friday evening in Nice and taken into police custody.
A third man was also taken into custody on Saturday.
The 33-year-old was present during the police search of the home of the second suspect - a man suspected of having been in contact with the assailant the day before the incident.