"Less than two weeks after the beheading of a French schoolteacher, an assailant carrying a knife entered the towering neo-Gothic basilica in the southern city of Nice early Thursday..."

"... and killed three people, further inflaming tensions in a country already on edge and leading the authorities to increase the terrorism threat level. Officials in Nice described the attack as Islamist terrorism, and it was quickly followed by two similar events — including a knife-wielding assailant outside a French Consulate in Saudi Arabia — though it was not immediately clear whether the events were coordinated. The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, told reporters on Thursday that a suspect, who has not been identified, was arrested after being shot and wounded by the police. The suspect 'kept repeating Allahu akbar in front of us even though he was sedated,' Mr. Estrosi said, adding this left 'no doubt' about the motivation behind the attack. 'There is a woman who quite clearly was attacked with the same modus operandi as Samuel Paty,' the Nice mayor, Mr. Estrosi, told BFM TV, referring to the teacher who was killed, suggesting that the victim was also decapitated....  President Emmanuel Macron visited the site of the attack on Thursday. He has vowed to crack down on 'Islamist separatism' in France.... 'Enough is enough,' said Mr. Estrosi, the Nice mayor. 'It is now time for France to exempt itself of peacetime laws to permanently annihilate Islamo-facism from our territory.'"

 From "Deadly Knife Attack in Nice Is Terrorism, French Officials Say/The assault at a church in the south of France left at least three people dead. Local officials said it bore similarities to the killing of a schoolteacher that has shaken the country" (NYT).