Terror returns to France

Terror has returned to France again this morning after a knifeman attacked and killed three people in Nice’s Basilica of Notre-Dame. An elderly female parishioner in her seventies and a male church warden and father of two are believed to be among the dead. A woman in her forties was also killed in the attack.

The city’s mayor Christian Estrosi described the incident as a ‘terrorist attack’ and claimed that the suspect had ‘repeated endlessly ‘Allahu Akbar’’. The suspected attacker was shot by police before being arrested.

The incident took place only a few hundred metres from where 86 people were killed when a lorry driver ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in 2016. It also comes just a few weeks after a high school teacher was decapitated in Paris after he showed images of the prophet Muhammed to pupils. French president Emmanuel Macron – whose targeting of radical Islam has sparked protests around the world – is travelling to Nice and is expected to make a statement shortly.