Nice, France. A man armed with knives enters the Catholic Basilica of Notre Dame, repeatedly shouting “Allahu Akbar,” and kills three people: a 60-year-old woman praying, nearly decapitated; the 55-year-old sacristan, with a deep throat slash; and a 44-year-old woman who manages to escape with multiple wounds, including a deep throat wound, but dies in the bar overlooking the basilica where she had sought refuge to seek help. After police intervened, the attacker is seriously injured and arrested: a Tunisian who had entered Europe from Lampedusa, in possession of a Red Cross identification card and a deportation order to leave Italy by October 9th. Other attacks occur that same day, one in Avignon, southern France, and one at the French consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
