Basilica Terror Attack in Nice: Who Were the Victims?

[Michie]

Some facts we've learned about the victims that died this morning in Nice, France.


Bells tolled in Catholic parishes across France in memory of the three people killed in a knife attack at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice Thursday morning.

This is what is known so far about the victims:


Vincent L., sacristan:

One of the victims has been identified as the sacristan of Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, Vincent L., who was 55 years old and a father of two daughters. He had served the basilica as sacristan for 10 years.

Catholics in Nice remembered Vincent for his dedicated service to the Church. Fr. Jean-Louis Giordan, the former rector of the basilica, told Vatican News that he first hired Vincent as sacristan of the basilica a decade ago.


A person familiar with the basilica told the French daily Le Parisien: “He's not just a sacristan. He helped a lot the priest who was old. … He was the handyman. The candles were always well lit … He was very discreet and very efficient. He didn’t speak much. He acted with great humility and respect. He is the first person we thought of when we learned of the attack,”

“He was an ordinary man, in the good sense of the word: nice, open,” Fr. Gil Florini, parish priest of Saint-Pierre-d'Arène-de-Nice church, told Le Figaro.

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Basilica Terror Attack in Nice: Who Were the Victims?

 

[chevyontheriver]

Some facts we've learned about the victims that died this morning in Nice, France.


Bells tolled in Catholic parishes across France in memory of the three people killed in a knife attack at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice Thursday morning.

This is what is known so far about the victims:


Vincent L., sacristan:

One of the victims has been identified as the sacristan of Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, Vincent L., who was 55 years old and a father of two daughters. He had served the basilica as sacristan for 10 years.

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Basilica Terror Attack in Nice: Who Were the Victims?

OK. Three good people killed. A perp in custody. Any idea WHY? Why did these people have to die? Why were they killed inside of a basilica? Which interests are advanced by killing them?

Did the perp succeed in decapitating one of his victims? Did the perp say “Allahu Akbar” inside the basilica, as is being reported? We all know Islam is a religion of peace, so what's with that?

 

[Michie]

An elderly woman who came to pray:

A woman described as elderly by French reports came to pray at the basilica on the morning of Oct. 28. Le Figaro reported that she was found dead with her throat cut, “nearly beheaded,” near the holy water font inside of the basilica.

 

[ReesePiece23]

So that makes it seven French attacks in less than five years - and at least three of those should have been impossible to pull off.

I don't like to cast aspersions, but the frequency and nature of these attacks are shocking. They've got to tighten up.

 

[chevyontheriver]

So that makes it seven French attacks in less than five years - and at least three of those should have been impossible to pull off.

AND burning down a lot of French churches. Supposedly Notre Dame in Paris was not arson. Supposedly. But many other French churches were.

 

[Stabat Mater dolorosa]

That's what you get when you don't have a second amendment (US style) in your constitution. We should all be carrying arms for the sake of our own aswel as our neighbour's safety. This Islamic toolbag would've been neutralized much sooner if the churchgoers carried arms.