2020 Nice stabbing
| 2020 Nice stabbing | |
|---|---|
The road in front of Notre-Dame de Nice closed by the French police after the attack | |
| 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 |
| Motive | Islamic extremism |
On the morning of 29 October 2020, three people were killed in a stabbing attack at Notre-Dame de Nice, a Catholic basilica in Nice, France. The attacker, Tunisian man Brahim Aouissaoui, was shot by the police and taken into custody. 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.