A 17-year-old minor in police custody after the attack in Nice

A 17-year-old minor taken into police custody as part of the investigation into the knife attack in Nice.

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A 17-year-old young man was taken into police custody on Wednesday in the investigation into the knife attack in a church in Nice last Thursday, which killed three people, we learned from judicial source.

This minor, arrested in Seine-Saint-Denis, is suspected of having been in contact by courier with the Tunisian assailant, Brahim Aouissaoui, according to this source.

Four other police custody, started on Tuesday, were still in progress early Wednesday evening, while a 29-year-old Tunisian, arrested on Saturday, was released during the day without prosecution at this stage.

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