France Raises Attack Alert Level after Nice Killings
France raised its alert to the highest level nationally on Thursday after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in the city of Nice in the third similar attack in just over a month.
Prime Minister Jean Castex said Thursday’s attack, in which at least one victim had their throat slit, was “as cowardly as it is barbaric” and told parliament he had decided to raise France’s Vigipirate security alert system to the highest, “attack emergency” level.
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A knife-wielding assailant has decapitated a woman and killed two other civilians in a “suspected terror attack” in France’s southern port city of Nice, police and officials say, days after a French teacher was beheaded in a similar attack in Paris.
