{"id":33926,"date":"2020-10-29T07:44:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=33926"},"modified":"2020-10-29T07:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:52:36","slug":"three-stabbed-to-death-in-french-terror-attack-whos-really-behind-these-attacks-and-why-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=33926","title":{"rendered":"“Three Stabbed to Death in French Terror Attack” — Who’s really behind these attacks and why now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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France attack: Deadly stabbing in Nice ‘terrorist attack’, mayor says<\/h1>\n

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Three people have been killed in a knife attack in the French city of Nice, police say.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said there had been a “terrorist attack at the heart of the Notre-Dame basilica”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One elderly victim who had come to pray was “virtually beheaded”. A suspect was shot and detained shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Estrosi spoke of “Islamo-fascism” and that the suspect had “repeated endlessly ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is greatest).”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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France’s national anti-terror prosecutors have opened a murder inquiry. Mr Estrosi compared the attack to the recent murder of teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded close to his school outside Paris earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Two further attacks took place on Thursday morning, one in France and one in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A man was shot dead in Montfavet near Avignon after threatening police with a handgun. And a guard was attacked outside the French consulate in Jeddah. A suspect was arrested and the guard taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police have not suggested a motive for the attack. However, it follows days of protests in some Muslim-majority countries triggered by President Macron’s defence of French cartoons that depict the Prophet Mohammed. There have been calls in some countries for a boycott of French goods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What is known about the attack in Nice?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Two of those who died were attacked inside the church, the elderly woman and a man who was found with his throat cut, reports said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A woman managed to flee to a nearby cafe after being stabbed several times, but died later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It later emerged that a witness had managed to raise the alarm with a special protection system set up by the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chloe, a witness who lives near the church, told the BBC: “We heard many people shouting in the street. We saw from the window that there were many, many policemen coming, and gunshots, many gunshots.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tom Vannier, a journalism student who arrived at the scene just after the attack, told the BBC that people were crying on the street.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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