2023-10-29 13:10:14
It was three years ago. Three people were killed in the attack on the Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption basilica in Nice. This Sunday, around twenty people gathered to pay tribute to them, as reported France Blue. Families of the victims, residents of Nice, prefect Hugues Moutouh and local politicians such as MP Éric Ciotti observed a minute of silence. A wreath of flowers was also laid and a mass was organized.
A trial before the special assize court
On October 13, an anti-terrorism investigating judge ordered a trial before the special assize court against Brahim Aouissaoui for having killed three people with a knife in this basilica in Nice, on October 29, 2020. The assailant, an elderly Tunisian 24-year-old who claims to have retained no memory of the events, will be tried for assassinations and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
On the morning of October 29, Brahim Aouissaoui fatally stabbed Nadine Devillers, a 60-year-old faithful, a Franco-Brazilian mother, Simone Barreto Silva, 44, who had taken refuge in a restaurant before dying, then the sacristan Vincent Loquès, 55 years old, father of two daughters. He brandished his knife and shouted “Allah akbar” when he found himself facing a patrol of the municipal police who intervened in the basilica.
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