Man acting strangely during Easter Mass in France arrested
PARIS – Police in the French Riviera city of Nice have arrested a man behaving strangely at an Easter Mass in a church not far from the promenade where a truck attack last year killed 86 people.
Police and soldiers converged around the Saint-Pierre d’Arene church and tried to calmly overpower the intruder Sunday.
The local Nice-Matin newspaper says the camouflage-dressed man in the back of the packed church put on ski gloves and spoke threateningly. The paper says he appeared to wave an object that looked like a sausage, but it was unclear if he was armed.
Regional president Eric Ciotti later tweeted “no worries” from the church.
In July, a Tunisian man living in France drove a cargo truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 86 and wounding hundreds.
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