Three killed in terrorist knife attack inside Nice church
Knife attack in Nice - French members of the elite tactical police unit (RAID) enter to search the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice after a knife attack in Nice. At least one person has been killed and several others injured in a knife attack at a church and the suspected assailant was detained shortly afterwards. - Valery Hache/AFP/dpa
October 29, 2020 | 01:20PM ETBankThree people were killed on Thursday inside a church in Nice, southern France, in what President Emmanuel Macron said was "a terrorist, Islamist attack."The attack, which was quickly condemned in France and around the world, came only two weeks after a schoolteacher who had used caricatures of the prophet Mohammed in a lesson was beheaded in a Paris suburb by a suspected Islamist.Macron, who had promised to intensify a planned crackdown on all forms of Islamism after the teacher's killing, said that France was "being attacked" and vowed to protect places of worship.Church bells rang out across...
