The assailant has been detained by police, a local paper says
An assailant stabbed a priest and a nun inside the Saint-Pierre-d’Arene church in the southern French city of Nice on Sunday, Mayor Christian Estrosi said.
The suspect was quickly detained by police. Estrosi said the victims were being treated for their wounds.
The mayor added that the suspect was a French national born in Frejus, a town near Nice, who was suffering from a mental condition. The head of the Alpes-Maritimes Region, Bernard Gonzalez, said that the suspect had been repeatedly admitted to a hospital for psychiatric treatment in the past. He ruled out that the incident was a terrorist attack.
The attack took place on the day of the presidential election and a week after Catholics celebrated Easter.
