Action Of The Stabbing At The Notre-Dame Basilica Church, France

Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi (Photo: Christian Estrosi / Twitter)

JAKARTA - The stabbing incident took place near the Notre-Dame Basilica church, France. Two people reportedly died and injured a number of others.

Based on reports from a number of media, the police reportedly arrested one suspected perpetrator. As reported by France24, the police also confirmed that at least two people died as a result of the incident.

The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, described the stabbing incident as a "terrorist attack." Estrosi also asked Nice residents to temporarily avoid the location of the incident so that the local security apparatus could carry out their response smoothly.

"I was at the scene with the police who arrested the perpetrator. All evidence supports the suspicion that this is a terrorist attack," said Estrosi, via Twitter, Thursday, October 29.

# Nice06 est une nouvelle fois touchée dans son coeur par l'islamofascisme que je ne cesse de dénoncer. J'adresse tout mon soutien et toute ma compassion aux familles des victimes de ce barbare.Je veux remercier les forces de l'ordre mobilisées et particulièrement la @PMdeNice pic.twitter.com/zgm4UPi1sR

- Christian Estrosi (@cestrosi) October 29, 2020

The stabbing incident itself, as Estrosi said, took place inside the Notre-Dame Basilica church in the city of Nice, France. The Church of the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice, France is a Roman Catholic basilica located on the Avenue Jean Medecin street in downtown Nice.

As is known, this incident occurred when France had just faced the incident of beheading a middle school teacher earlier this October. The incident was triggered by the teacher's teaching activity showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students in class when they discussed the topic of free speech.

It is currently unclear what the motive was behind the stabbing attack in Nice, or the connection between this attack and the cartoon incident of the Prophet Muhammad, whose publication is deemed to have offended Muslims.