Brahim Aouissaoui claimed that he did not remember the attacks, but medical examinations excluded brain damage.
On Wednesday, the French court sentenced Tunisan to life imprisonment, which in 2020 murdered three people with a knife in the Basilica of the Mother of God in the Southern French city of Nice. This is reported by TASR, according to the AFP report.
Brahim Aouissaoui confessed to the attacks, although he claims he doesn’t remember exactly what happened because the police shot him. Medical examinations excluded brain damage and, according to a psychiatric opinion at the time of the events, had no violated judgment. The 25-year-old attack of 29 October 2020 is attributed to Islamic radicalism.
The attack was committed by a kitchen knife
According to Aouissaoui, the kitchen knife in the church was almost beheaded by the head of a 60-year-old woman, stabbing a 44-year-old woman about 25 times and cutting his throat a 55-year-old man.
Life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional dismissal is the strictest possible punishment under French law and corresponds to the prosecutor’s office.
Aouissaoui said the murders were “legitimate” revenge for how the West killed “innocent” Muslims. According to the prosecutor’s office, he was convicted of “jihadist ideology”. Tunisan shouted during the trial that “it wasn’t terrorism”.
Brahim Aouissaoui comes from Tunisia and arrived in France only a month before the attack. According to the prosecutor’s office, he was radicalized in 2018, before he was reportedly frequently a frequent user of alcohol and marijuana.
