Man goes on trial in France over deadly Nice church attack Brahim Aouissaoui, 25, tells court he has no memory of 2020 attack in which three people were fatally stabbed.
Brahim Aouissaoui, 25, told the special court in Paris he had no recollection of the events of October 2020, when he allegedly almost decapitated a 60-year-old woman, stabbed another worshipper 24 times and slit the throat of a church worker with a kitchen knife – killing all three.
A national day of mourning was held for Nadine Devillers, 60, whose husband, Joffrey, completed and published the autobiography she was writing at the time of her killing, Vincent Loqués, 55, a devout Catholic who worked at the church, who had his throat cut inside the church, and Simone Barreto Silva, 44, a Franco-Brazilian care worker, who was repeatedly stabbed inside the Notre-Dame basilica.
A Tunisian man has gone on trial in France accused of fatally stabbing three people in a terrorist attack at a church in Nice.
According to the anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office there were “many indications that at the time he left Tunisia … the accused intended to carry out an attack in France”.
