In the days after the attack, police arrested two men who were believed to have been in contact with the attacker immediately prior to the incident. A bomb disposal unit responded to the crime scene, while heavily armed anti-terror police officers patrolled the streets around the basilica. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said immediately after that a police operation was underway in the city. Authorities found items that they said belonged to the suspect, including a Quran, three knives, and two cell phones. A total of 14 shots were fired by police. Four responding police officers first tasered the attacker and then shot him, even as he continued to shout, " Allahu Akbar!" The suspect was then taken to hospital, where he was in life-threatening condition. The attack was carried out over a span of 28 minutes, during which he shouted " Allahu Akbar," repeatedly. Another was the sexton of the church, and the third victim was another woman. One victim, an elderly woman, was partially beheaded. The attacker killed three people with a knife. The attack occurred on 29 October 2020 at 8:30 a.m., in the premises of Notre-Dame de Nice, a Roman Catholic basilica situated on the Avenue Jean Médecin in the centre of Nice. Several protests across the Muslim world followed, in which photographs of Macron were burned, accompanied by anti-French chants. Following these events, and Macron's defence of the cartoons in particular, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for a boycott of French products.
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After Paty's murder, Macron defended the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad on free speech grounds. Despite this, her account incited anger among the Islamic community in France and eventually led to the beheading of Paty in the Île-de-France by an 18-year-old Chechen Muslim who had acquired refugee status in France in March 2020. The student who provided the original account of Paty's lesson later admitted to lying about being present, and exaggerating others' accounts in order to blame Paty for a recent suspension. Two weeks later, Samuel Paty, a history teacher, was accused by an unnamed student of showing his classes offensive Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He vowed to present a bill to strengthen a 1905 law that officially separated church and state in France.
Nice was the scene of a truck attack in 2016, which resulted in the deaths of 86 people.įour weeks prior to this attack, French President Emmanuel Macron described Islam as a religion "in crisis" worldwide, prompting backlash from Muslims.
In recent years, France has seen many jihadist terrorist attacks, carried out by both Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorist cells, and by lone-wolf terrorists. Reconstruction work has been delayed due to bad weather, concerns over lead pollution and most recently the coronavirus pandemic.įiremen narrowly managed to save the 19th century Gothic cathedral as images of near-destruction sent shockwaves through France and the wider world.See also: Islamic terrorism § France, and Terrorism in France That prompted much public debate but the president eventually said the spire would be reconstructed exactly as it was.įor the deadline to be met, oak trees need to be cut by March of this year in order to let them dry for the necessary 12 to 18 months and to avoid excess sap and humidity in the trunks by spring. Mr Macron wants Notre-Dame restored to its former glory by 2024, in time for the Paris Olympics.Īfter the fire, he suggested the 96-metre (315-foot) spire could be replaced since it was not a part of the original cathedral. Only trees that are at least 100, if not 200, years old, can boast such measurements. The rangers have specific criteria: the trees must be straight, have a diameter of 50 to 90 cm and must be 8 to 14 metres tall. We will choose trees in the forest according to their dimensions: height, diameter, quality," François Hauet, a forestry expert in Louviers and vice-president of the Normande association of Forest Experts, told France Inter. "For now we are in the phase of selecting the trees according to the frame that will be needed for the spire. French forest experts are searching for a thousand trees older than 100 years to rebuild the spire of the Notre-Dame cathedral that was destroyed in a huge blaze in 2019.Ī thousand trees will be cut down by the end of March to replicate the exact spire designed by architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, which was incinerated along with a large chunk of the roof when the Paris landmark went up in flames in April 2019.
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