A man decribed as mentally unstable attacked a priest with a knife in a church in Nice, southern France, officials said on Sunday.
Highlights
- A man attacked a priest with a knife in Nice, France, officials said on Sunday.
- The attacker had no criminal record and was known to have purchased a knife several days earlier.
- The assault came as France was voting in the second round of presidential elections.
- The man was named as a 31-year-old man who had not been seen in the public eye since the attack.
- He was not injured and police said he was not thought to be in a serious state of any danger to his life, police said on social media site Twitter.
- The attack happened in the city of Nice in the early hours of Sunday morning.