Tunisia's Security Arrests Man Claiming Responsibility For The Deadly Nice Attack

Published November 1st, 2020 - 07:39 GMT
The killings came two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by a suspected Islamist extremist. The teacher had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson on freedom of speech.  Valery HACHE / AFP
The killings came two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by a suspected Islamist extremist. The teacher had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson on freedom of speech. Valery HACHE / AFP
Highlights
Three people were killed in stabbing attack by Tunisian migrant on Thursday

Tunisian security forces on Saturday arrested a man for claiming responsibility of a knife attack in the southern French city of Nice, according to a judicial spokesman.

Mohsen Dali, a spokesman for Tunisia’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office, told Anadolu Agency that the suspect appeared in a video claiming responsibility for the attack, which left three people dead by a Tunisian migrant on Thursday.


He said the suspect was arrested for questioning, without giving any further details.

On Thursday, a spokesman for a group calling itself the Ansar Al-Mahdi in Tunisia and Arab Maghreb claimed responsibility for the Nice knife attack in a video footage on social media.

On Friday, Dali said the Tunisian authorities were investigating the authenticity of the claim.

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