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Tunisian Police detain man who claimed responsibility for Nice attack : Judicial Official

Doha, Oct 31 (Sputnik) Tunisian police announced the arrest of a supporter of a previously unknown group called Al-Mahdi in southern Tunisia, who claimed responsibility in his post on Facebook for the recent terrorist attack in France's Nice, the information officer and deputy public prosecutor at the Tunis Court of First Instance, Mohsen Dali, told Al Arabiya broadcaster.
"Overnight, a counter-terrorism unit of the national guard detained the man who was seen in a video posted on Facebook," Dali said.
On Friday, the judicial counter-terrorism department of the Tunisian Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered an investigation into the so-called Al Mahdi terror organization and its possible involvement in the recent knife attack in France.
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