{"id":215739,"date":"2020-10-29T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215739"},"modified":"2020-10-31T06:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:59:07","slug":"three-people-killed-and-several-injured-in-nice-knife-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215739","title":{"rendered":"Three people killed and several injured in Nice knife attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kim Willshire \u2013 Act 29, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Police described the scene inside the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice city centre as a “vision of horror”. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A knifeman killed three people and injured several others in an attack inside a church in Nice on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur.<\/span><\/p>\n

The killings happened at 9am on Thursday morning inside the Notre-Dame basilica in the city centre. There were unconfirmed reports in the French media that at least one of the victims had been beheaded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police described the scene as a \u201cvision of horror\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The attacker was shot and injured by police and was taken to hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, said the attacker had repeated \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d several times while he was being arrested and handcuffed by police.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said a woman victim had been decapitated but he had no details of how the two others were killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Estrosi said: \u201cWe have two people killed inside the church \u2026 and a third person who was in a bar facing the church where she had taken refuge. Enough is enough \u2026 we have to remove this Islamo-fascism from our territory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The attack comes less than two weeks after history teacher Samuel Paty, 47, was beheaded outside his high school after showing his class caricatures including one of the Prophet Muhammad during a discussion on free speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore it was a school professor, this time the Islamo-fascist barbarism chose to attack inside a church. Again, it is very symbolic,\u201d Estrosi added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police confirmed that three people had died in the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

France\u2019s anti-terrorist prosecutor has been brought in to investigate charges of \u201ckilling linked to a terrorist organisation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Emmanuel Macron is heading to Nice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nice was attacked in July 2016 when a terrorist drove a 19-tonne truck into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the famous Promenade des Anglais, killing 86 people<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and injuring 458 others. The driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in France, was shot and killed by police.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the killing of Paty at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on 16 October, Macron said France<\/a> was engaged in an \u201cexistential\u201d battle against Islamist fundamentalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

His comments and support for the publication of controversial caricatures of the Prophet by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo have sparked angry protests across the Muslim world, with pictures of the president burned and calls for a boycott of French goods.<\/span><\/p>\n

The prime minister, Jean Castex, left the Assembl\u00e9e National urgently after a minute of silence before joining the interior minister, G\u00e9rard Darmanin, in a \u201ccrisis cell\u201d at the ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The attacker reportedly chanted \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d after he was shot and detained by police following three fatal stabbings in the Notre-Dame basilica <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215743,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215739\/revisions\/215743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}