Nice (AFP) – Three soldiers on guard outside a Jewish community center in Nice were attacked with a knife in the city center on Tuesday afternoon by a man arrested in the aftermath and anti-terrorist branch of the Paris prosecutor s’ is seized of the investigation.
The motivations of this man were unknown for now.
“A little after 14:00, while three soldiers were on guard outside a Jewish website (…), an individual, who was on the sidewalk then violently assaulted with a large knife one of the soldiers aimed their face or neck, “are we told the police source told AFP.
This soldier was wounded in the cheek, a “deep wound but apparently not serious,” and another soldier was hit in the arm by controlling the individual known to police for acts fairly old, is it added the same source. The third soldier was meanwhile not injured.
The attacker may have had an accomplice, added another police source said, without giving any details on the motivations or the profile of this man or his possible accomplice. According to several sources close to the investigation, the man arrested would be called Moussa Coulibaly but would “a priori” unrelated Amédy Coulibaly, one of the bombers from Paris earlier this year.
According to a statement of the UMP mayor, Christian Estrosi, the attacker was arrested also thanks to the intervention of a shopkeeper, a governing officer of local transport and members of the national police and Municipal
-L’agresseur had two knives -.
“I want to the layout of the images justice protection video cameras that recorded the attack and calls for heavy sanctions against the arrested criminal, “added Mr. Estrosi. Elected asked the government to “maintain the presence of military forces in (the) town, whose mission was to end” Tuesday.
The military has been supported by the emergency services on the scene of the attack, Avenue Jean Medecin, close to Place Massena, said a correspondent of AFP. Their prognosis is not engaged.
The perpetrator had two knives on him, but has apparently used that, said the first deputy Christian Estrosi mayor of Nice, Philippe Pradal, who visited the site after the event.
The military provided security in the Vigipirate front of a building housing the Jewish Consistory of Nice, Radio Shalom and Jewish association.
The Chief Rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, “will call the chain of command for news of these soldiers, whom he wishes a speedy recovery,” he told AFP his entourage.
“although the threat is seen (anti-Semitic) is real, before these attacks to places that are identified as Jews,” he does one said the same source. “The presence of the military in front of places of worship is necessary. In the words of President François Hollande, they risk their lives to save ours.”
Some 10,500 troops have been deployed, including 5,800 in Ile-de-France, on sensitive sites, including places of worship Jews and Muslims, to schools or media companies, in the Vigipirate reinforced after the attacks earlier this year in Paris.
“military assault to # Nice06: it is a symbol of the Republic who is attacked, my solidarity to our soldiers”, also reacted on Twitter UMP MP and Chairman of the General Council of the Alps -Maritimes Eric Ciotti.
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