Back هجوم نيس 2020 Arabic Atemptat de Niça de 2020 Catalan ھێرشی نیس ٢٠٢٠ CKB Teroristický útok v Nice 2020 Czech Anschlag in Nizza 2020 German Τρομοκρατική επίθεση στη Νίκαια (Γαλλία) 2020 Greek Atentado de Niza de 2020 Spanish حمله با چاقو ۲۰۲۰ نیس Persian Attentat de la basilique Notre-Dame de Nice French פיגוע הדקירה בניס (2020) HE
| 2020 Nice stabbing | |
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| Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe and terrorism in France | |
 The road in front of Notre-Dame de Nice closed by the French police after the attack | |
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| Location | Notre-Dame de Nice, Nice, France |
| Date | 29 October 2020 8:30 (CET (UTC+01:00)) |
Attack type | Stabbing |
| Weapons | Knife |
| Deaths | 3 |
| Injured | 1 (the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Brahim Aouissaoui[1] |
| Motive | Islamic extremism |
On the morning of 29 October 2020, three people were killed in a stabbing attack at Notre-Dame de Nice, a Roman Catholic basilica in Nice, France.[2] The attacker, Tunisian man Brahim Aouissaoui, was shot by the police and taken into custody.[3] He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2025.
Both French President Emmanuel Macron and the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, said it was a terrorist attack attributed to Islamic extremism.[4][5]
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- ^ Sandford, Alasdair; Tidye, Alice (29 October 2020). "Nice attack: Church stabbing leaves three dead and several injured". EuroNews with AFP. EuroNews. Retrieved 29 October 2020.