The French government on Friday vowed to send thousands more police onto the streets to ensure security as investigators sought to uncover what motivated a young Tunisian to kill three people inside a church in the southern city of Nice.
The bloodshed inside Nice’s Notre-Dame basilica on Thursday morning added new tension in a country already on the highest alert after a string of attacks blamed on suspected Islamists in recent weeks.
The 21-year-old Tunisian arrived in France this month via Italy before carrying out what the government described as an act of “Islamist” terror inside the…