Lyon, France (AP) – Tunisian nationals were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole late Wednesday, the toughest sentence in France, as three people killed in Nice, the French Riviera, were sentenced in 2020 in 2020, a number of attacks related to Islamic extremism.
Brahim Aouissaoui, 25, was charged with terror murder and attempted murder. He acknowledged responsibility for the attack during the trial in Paris, even though he said he remembered nothing since. He explained that he wanted to avenge the Muslims who died in Western countries around the world.
On October 29, 2020, Aouissaoui killed 60-year-old believer Nadine Vincent, 44-year-old French Brazilian woman Simone Barreto and 55-year-old church worker Vincent Loquès. He was shot and injured.
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The attack was the third attack attributed by French authorities to Islamic extremists in less than two months and prompted the government to raise its security alert to the highest level. This is the French trial of the 2015 satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which published a cartoon of the Islamic prophet. At that time, France was facing the anger of many Muslims around the world in defending cartoons and their policies against Islamic radicalism.
France is still on high alert today, especially for the threat of domestic extremism caused on online platforms.
