Mr. Obama said the attack in Nice was made worse by the fact that it happened as the crowd was celebrating Bastille Day.
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He was quiet, with a fixed gaze and few words for his neighbors.
At least 84 people were killed when the white 19-tonne truck slammed into the crowd on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice’s glitzy beachfront, as they gathered to watch a firework display on France’s national day.
French officials said 84 people were killed, including at least 10 children.
Bouhlel had three children but lived separately from his wife, who was taken into police custody on Friday.
Molins said that although Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had never been investigated by the security services, he was known to police. “France will have to live with terrorism”.
“We would hold the door open for him and he would just blank [us]”, she said.
“I never saw him at the mosque”, said the caretaker of an apartment building as he sat in a restaurant next to the mosque, who asked not to be named.
One neighbour told BFM TV he was “more into women than religion”.
“We have an individual who was not known to intelligence services for activities linked to jihadism”, he said.
Another neighbor, who gave her name as Monique, said she was “horrified” to learn that the killer had lived in her apartment complex.
When it comes to Lahouaiej Bouhlel, women neighbors say they were unnerved by him.
Paris Prosecutor François Molins said video surveillance footage showed the truck had been stationed in Nice since Monday. Bouhlel put his bike in the back of the truck and got into the cab, and then drove it to the famous boulevard.
A heroic member of the public halted the truck involved in the Nice terror attack by leaping into the vehicle, wrestling with the driver and seizing his revolver, giving the police time to arrive at the spot and shoot the driver, a media report said. Investigators also found a fake handgun and two fake military-style semi-automatic, Molins said.
Bouhlel’s Facebook page indicates that he visited the center on March 24, 2014.
Many residents of Msaken town have migrated to Nice, where the Tunisian community numbers about 130,000.
“There was an altercation between him and another driver and he hurled a wooden pallet at the man”, Urvoas told reporters.
Other attacks in Sousse include a suicide bomber who blew himself up in a botched attack in October 2013.
ISIS, which has been gaining strength in Tunisia, claimed responsibility for the bombing that killed 12 people.
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The north African country has become a pluralistic democracy since the Jasmine Revolution of 2011, which spawned the Arab Spring, the regional uprising that led to a brutal civil war in Syria, a failing state in Libya and a repressive counterrevolution in Egypt.
