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11:43 a.m., April 24, 2022
A 57-year-old priest and a 72-year-old woman were stabbed in a church in Nice. The aggressor has been neutralized and the terrorist track is to be ruled out a priori. According to the police, the man is “obviously bipolar”.
A “manifestly bipolar” man attacked a priest on Sunday morning, injuring him slightly, in a church in Nice, but his gesture “does not have a terrorist character a priori”, we learned from a police source.
The attack was announced by the Minister of the Interior, in a tweet. “An attack took place this morning in a church in Nice. The priest is injured. No vital prognosis involved. Solidarity with the parishioners and thank you to the police who quickly arrested the perpetrator. The Prefect is on site “, wrote Gérald Darmanin.
The author of the attack, named Kevin, born in 1991 in Fréjus, of French nationality, is domiciled in Nice. He is unknown to the services, a police source said.
He is “manifestly bipolar” and his gesture has “no a priori terrorist character”. “He spontaneously told the police that he was of the Jewish faith and that on this election day, he wanted to kill Emmanuel Macron and that he had finally fallen back on a church”, we were told. added from the same police source.
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