The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) requested a trial before the special assize court against Brahim Aouissaoui, accused of having killed three people with a knife on the morning of October 29, 2020 in the Nice basilica, he indicated. Tuesday, confirming information from Nice morning. A hearing could be held in fall 2024.
In its final indictment signed on September 7, the Pnat notes the “determination of the deadly intent” of the attacker, a Tunisian aged 24, and the “terrorist nature of the facts”. Brahim Aouissaoui affirmed throughout the investigations that he retained no memory of the facts.
“I will go to France, the country of unbelievers and dogs”
Faced with the anti-terrorism investigating judge who questioned him five times between April 6, 2021 and November 28, 2022, he most often responded: “I don’t remember”, “I have nothing to say” . “Normally tomorrow I will leave for France, the country of unbelievers and dogs,” he wrote to a contact a few days before the events.
On October 29, 2020, around 8:30 a.m., Brahim Aouissaoui, 21, entered the religious building armed with a knife with a blade 17 cm long. First he almost decapitates Nadine Devillers, a 60-year-old churchgoer. Then he stabbed the Franco-Brazilian Simone Barreto Silva, 44 years old, who took refuge in a restaurant before dying, and the sacristan Vincent Loquès, 55 years old, father of two daughters.