PARIS: A knife-wielding man accused of attacking three soldiers outside a Jewish community centre in the south of France was on Saturday charged with attempted murder in connection with a terrorist operation, a judicial source said.

Moussa Coulibaly, 30, who was arrested immediately after Tuesday's broad daylight attack in the French Riviera city of Nice, was also ordered to be held in pre-trial detention, the source told Agence France-Presse.

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