French Police make arrests in Nice
Four people were arrested north of Paris on Tuesday in connection with last weeks deadly knife attack in a church in Nice, a judicial source said.
One of the people arrested, a 29-year-old from Tunisia, was suspected of having been in contact with the attacker, the source said.
The other three were in his home when police came to arrest him.
Three people were killed in the attack on Friday, which President Emmanuel Macron described as an act of terrorism.
The main suspect, a 21-year-old Tunisian who had recently arrived in France via Italy, was shot 14 times by police and hospitalised in a critical condition.
It was the second deadly attack in a month, after the beheading in a Paris suburb of a schoolteacher, who had used controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in a class on the freedom of expression.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday that he would be visiting Tunisia and Algeria later this week.
The according to him is to persuade those countries to accept the return of citizens with extremist views that France wanted to expel.
France has also intensified a planned crackdown on militants activists after the attacks, with a big mosque in a Paris suburb and a prominent Islamic charity both closed down. (dpa/NAN)
Source: NAN News