On Thursday morning, a man armed with a knife attacked people in the Notre-Dame de Nice Cathedral. The attacker was able to kill three people — including two by beheading, according to reports — before being seized by the police.
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said that the attacker kept yelling "Allahu Akbar." The French government designated the incident as a terrorist attack.
In the late hours of Thursday, French anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said that the attacker, identified as 21-year-old Brahim Aoussaoui from Tunisia arrived in France on October 9 and was not previously known to intelligence services.
The assault in Nice was also followed by a disturbing series of violent acts, including a knife-stabbing attempt in France's southeastern city of Avignon and another one at the French Consulate in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah. Probes into those incidents are underway.