President Emmanuel Macron has deployed thousands of soldiers to protect sites such as places of worship on schools.

France's security alert is now race to its highest level.

Police were holding a 21 year old Tunisian migrant named us for him away Zoe.

He arrived in Nis by train from Italy on Thursday morning and made his way to the Notredame church.

French police believe he was the attacker who killed a 55 year old sexton on beheaded a 60 year old woman before stabbing a mother of three, Simone Barreto Silver, who fled to a nearby cafe and raised the alarm before she died in the Tunisian city of effects are we saw, his family told Reuters.

They were shocked at the idea he had committed such a violent crime.

This is his sister.

No one can understand how this happened.

His brother said The family had spoken to him on a video call outside the church hours before the attack, he had shown no sign that he planned any violence.

Thursday's attack on the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed took place at a time of swelling Muslim anger across the globe at the issue of French cartoons depicting the prophet, which they deemed insulting and blasphemous.

Hence, of thousands of Muslims protested across the globe, chanting slogans and accusing Macron of Islamophobia on Friday for defending the right to publish such cartoons, France was already in mourning from another deadly attack.

When a school teacher was beheaded in a Paris suburb.

He'd shown his pupils similar cartoons in a class on freedom of expression.