French security forces routinely use a wide scope when arresting and questioning suspects’ family, friends and contacts after an attack. Debates about cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have strained France’s relations with some Muslim-majority countries since the beheading of a teacher in a Paris suburb by a Muslim man this month. In Thursday’s attack, a man entered the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice shortly after it opened in the morning and fatally attacked three people with a 7-inch knife. In a separate attack Thursday, a knife-wielding assailant wounded a security guard outside a French Consulate in Saudi Arabia. He was decapitated by an 18-year-old Muslim man who was angered that Paty had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class.

Source: bd News24 October 30, 2020 16:18 UTC