Nice killer was not on Tunisia's suspected militant list

TUNIS/PARIS - France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says the man who killed three in a Nice church was a Tunisian who entered France from Italy.

Jean-Francois Ricard told a press conference late Thursday that the 21-year-old man, named Brahim Aouissaoui, arrived in Italy by reaching the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on September 20, and travelled to Paris on October 9.

The travel information came from a document on the man from the Italian Red Cross, Ricard said. The attacker was seriously wounded by police and is being treated in a hospital.

Tunisia has opened an investigation into Aouissaoui, who is originally from the village of Sidi Omar Bouhajla near Kairouan, but had lately been living in Sfax and police are questioning his family there, a Tunisian security source said.

Sfax, a major port about 130km (80 miles) from the small Italian island of Lampedusa, is a major point of departure for Tunisians seeking to make the dangerous and illegal crossing to Europe.

A French police source said Aouissaoui wasn't known to French intelligence services either.