NADINE VINCENT AND SIMONE WERE THE 3 DEAD VICTIMS TERRORIST ATTACK OF NOTRE DAME

USPA NEWS - The day after the attack which caused the death of three victims, striking, like a sacrilege in a Notre Dame church in Nice, the investigation is progressing and the identity of the aggressor becomes clearer, on this knife attack which has killed three people. The three victims, all of whom died from the assailant's knife attack, are two women and a man. The first victim, found near the main entrance, "is 60 years old, she has a very deep throat cut on the order of beheading", reported the prosecutor. The assailant then fatally slaughtered the sacristan. Vincent Loques, who would have been 55 on Friday, was the father of two daughters. The third victim is "a 44-year-old Brazilian Simone Barreto Silva, mother of three children living in France" according to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

NADINE DEVILLERS THE 1ST VICTIM WAS A PASSIONATE ABOUT THEATER COMEDIAN AND PRAYED AT N DAME CHURCH--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first victim, Nadine Devillers, found near the main entrance, "is 60 years old, she has a very deep throat cut on the order of beheading", reported the Anti terrorist prosecutor, Jean Francois Ricard. Nadine Devillers, the first victim was a theater enthusiast, and lived near the Notre-Dame basilica where the attack took place and often stopped there to pray "for her and for the others", told the 'AFP, Alain Clement the Director of theater Phenix, where she played. "She had had a hard life professionally, and even now she had to fight to find work, but that didn't stop her from keeping a smile, from listening to others, she was optimistic, against all odds, “he continues.

VINCENT LOQUES THE 2ND VICTIM WAS THE SACRISTAN OF NOTRE DAME CHURCH------------------------------- Vincent Loques, who would have been 55 on Friday, was the father of two daughters, was the sacristan of Notre Dame Church, and fatally slaughtered by the assailant, met in his path. Vincent Loques, opened the doors of the Church to the faithful and to passers-by, every day, since 2013. "Every morning, I saw him open the doors, and now I know that I will no longer be able to see him and chat with him", cried a faithful interviewed on the TV channel, France 2, the day after the tragedy. Vincent Loquese had two grown-up daughters with his first wife, one a nurse and the other a childcare worker and from Saint-Etienne-de-Tinee (Alpes-Maritimes), a small village near the Italian border. He had first worked in masonry, before becoming sacristan in Nice, first at the Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc church, then at Notre-Dame. He came from a "family of ecclesiastics", (Source: AFP and Le Parisien Journal)

SIMONE BARRETO SILVA FRENCH BRAZILIAN A BELOVED MUM WAS THE 3RD VICTIM---------------------------- The third victim is "a 44-year-old Brazilian Simone Barreto Silva, mother of three children living in France" according to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Simone Barreto Silva died a few minutes after asking for help, wounded, by stabbing, in a restaurant near the Notre Dame church. She whispered « Please tell my children that I love them » to the waiter, before she passed away. Simone Barreto Silva, French-Brazilian, was a caregiver and lived in Nice with her three children, in the popular district of Gambetta and planned to launch her own restaurant "Simone was an extraordinary woman, always smiling, she spoke well to everyone", tells AFP Angela Tavares who runs a bar -restaurant on the ground floor of the building where the victim lived. (Source AFP)

ACCORDING TO ANTI-TERRORIST ATTORNEY J.F RICARD THE ASSAILLANT USED A 17CM KNIFE--------------- The French anti-terrorism prosecution has opened an investigation for "assassinations and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and "criminal terrorist criminal association", coordinated by the Anti-terrorism Sub-Directorate (Sdat). According to Jean-François Ricard, the prosecutor of the anti-terrorism prosecution. On the spot, investigators found the murder weapon, a knife with a 17 cm blade, as well as a bag of personal effects, a Koran and two phones, as well as two unused knives were also discovered, a he added. These two phones are in operation. (Source: AFP) The alleged perpetrator of the attack, a 21-year-old Tunisian, called Brahim Issaoui, has been identified (Based on a document from the Italian Red Cross). According to the French anti-terrorism prosecutor and a source at the Italian Interior Ministry, he arrived in Europe illegally via the Italian island of Lampedusa on September 20. He would have landed on the continent, in Bari, in southern Italy, on October 9, explained Jean-François Ricard. He would then have received an order to leave Italian territory within seven days, according to the Italian source. Tunisian justice, which also opened an investigation, said he had a criminal record of common law, violence and drugs.------------------------------------------------------------------------ According to the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, the attacker did not apply for a residence permit or a residence permit in France. It is also "unknown to the national file of fingerprints" and "unknown to the intelligence services", according to Jean-François Ricard.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coming from a large and modest family in Sfax (central Tunisia), the young man, repairer of motorcycles according to his mother, had been praying for two and a half years. "He did not go out and communicate with others," she told AFP. On Thursday, a 47-year-old man suspected of having been in contact with the assailant was taken into custody, a judicial source was told Friday, but "he would not have any connection with the attack ", then indicated a source close to the investigation. A second man in contact with the author of the attack was arrested and placed in police custody on Friday, we learned from a judicial source, confirming information from France Info. (Source: AFP, France24)