Mayor Christian Estrosi said on Twitter the knife attack had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church and that police had detained the attacker. Three people have been killed and several others wounded after a knife attack near a church in the French city of Nice. Right now, the present and future look bleak to us.”Within hours of the Nice attack, police killed a man who had threatened passers-by with a handgun in Montfavet, near the southern French city of Avignon. “The French embassy strongly condemns this attack against a diplomatic outpost which nothing could justify,” an embassy statement said. The attack comes while France is still reeling from the fatal attack earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty.

Source: Huffington Post October 29, 2020 08:48 UTC