They were having a meal break at the Saint-Augustin police station in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) when they picked up a call at around 0.50 am reporting a violent knife attack in the city centre on Boulevard Gambetta.
These three BAC officers and colleagues immediately arrive at the scene and learn that two perpetrators are on the run. According to the alerts, the suspected knifeman is dressed in a training suit of the Bayern Munich football team. The CCTV officers inform the emergency services that the two men are on the beach side of the Promenade des Anglais at the height of the Albert 1 garden. The BAC police officers rush to the scene and are able to arrest a first man of Tunisian origin at 1.05 am.
The two victims are two transgender persons. “Both were attacked, but only one was injured with a knife. She suffered several knife wounds to her shoulder, cheek, arm and hands, but her injuries are not life-threatening,” a source close to the case told TF1info.
At the same time, the suspected knifeman manages to flee on foot along the promenade and does not comply with the police officers’ request to stop. The fleeing man is said to have shouted: “Allah Akbar. Shoot me, I want to die as a martyr. I want to go to paradise”.
The officers then spotted him running towards the beach and approaching a group of people. At the last moment, the fleeing man changed direction and eventually ran towards a couple. The police officers shouted to the onlookers to move aside as the man was identified as a suspected knifeman.
Eventually, two police officers manage to clasp the man and a third, who comes in for backup, pushes him to the ground. In his pocket the officers found a bloody Opinel knife. At that moment, the man told the police officers that his name was Mohamed D., that he had been born in Nice in 2002 and that he lived in the commune. He had repeatedly said that he wanted to “die as a martyr” and “kill in the name of Allah, kill a faggot”.
The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office, contacted by TF1info’s editorial team, is currently assessing the situation. The prosecutor’s office in Nice is currently in charge of the case.Tf1info.fr
They actually believe what is said in the quran about ‘paradise”.