The president of the French Bishops' Conference has requested for the church to be be recognized as a plaintiff in the trial of the man who killed three people in a 2020 attack in a church in southern France.

The trial of a Tunisian man charged with the triple murder of visitors and staff at the Notre Dame Basilica in the southern French city of Nice began on Monday at a jury court in Paris. The 25-year-old is accused of killing three people with a knife and seriously injuring others in the Roman Catholic church in the Mediterranean city on October 29,

A Tunisian man goes on trial Monday for stabbing three people to death in a church in the southern French city of Nice in 2020 as part of a "terrorist" plot. He hails from a large family of seemingly modest means living in the central Tunisian city of Sfax.