PARIS/NICE - As he did every day, the sexton of the Notre Dame church in the French city of Nice opened up the doors around 8:30 a.m. There were few people around; the first Mass of the day was not due to start for another two hours.
What happened in the initial moments of the attack inside the church, a neo-Gothic building in a tree-lined square in the centre of Nice, remains unclear. "I thought it was a joke, I didn't believe it," said one of the staff in the bakery, who spoke to French broadcaster BFMTV and gave his name as David.
David said the police arrived on the scene within 30 seconds, while he went back inside his bakery and pulled down the blinds.At some point during the attack, the knifeman came out of the church, according to Didier-Olivier Reverdy of police officer's union Alliance Police Nationale. "When I turned around, I saw that they were firing at someone who was moving away from the church," she told Reuters. The man police were firing at then disappeared from view, she said.What happened next is unclear, but it appeared the attacker went back towards the church.
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