(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced a Tunisian man to life in prison without parole for killing three people with a knife in a church in the southern city of Nice in 2020.
Brahim Aouissaoui, 25, this week admitted he was responsible for the attack but claimed he did not remember exactly what happened.
The murderous rampage on October 29, 2020 was one of a number of deadly incidents in France that have been blamed on Islamist radicals since 2015.
According to prosecutors, armed with a kitchen knife, Aouissaoui almost decapitated Nadine Vincent, a 60-year-old worshipper, stabbed 44-year-old Franco-Brazilian mother Simone Barreto Silva around 25 times and slit the throat of sacristan Vincent Loques, 55, a father of two daughters.
