PARIS: The man suspected of carrying out a
fatal knife attack
at a church in the southern French city of Nice kept shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) even after he had been arrested by police, Nice Mayor
Christian Estrosi
told reporters.
Meanwhile, France's anti-terrorist body said it was looking into the fatal knife attack that took place on Thursday morning.
A police source said a woman was decapitated. French politician
Marine Le Pen
also spoke of a decapitation having occurred in the attack.
The French anti-terrorist prosecutor's department said it had been asked to investigate the attack.
The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher
Samuel Paty
in Paris by a man of Chechen origin.
The attacker had said he wanted to punish Paty for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics lesson.
Since Paty's killing, French officials - backed by many ordinary citizens - have re-asserted the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely displayed at marches in solidarity with the killed teacher.