“Attacks are prepared with accomplices”, he said. “It is all of France which is under threat of Islamic terrorism”.
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Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Spain and France had agreed to continue enforcing tighter police controls at border crossings that were introduced for the recent European football championship and the Tour de France.
Writing online, Nice Matin journalist Damien Allemand who was at the waterside said the fireworks display had finished and the crowd had got up to leave when they heard a noise and cries.
Then the truck dramatically picked up speed as people fled in terror.
Photographs from the scene in Nice show the windscreen of the vehicle Bouhlel was driving riddled with gunshots.
“The members of the Security Council reiterated that any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed”, said Japanese Ambassador Koro Bessho, reading a statement by the council.
“At the moment that he was shot dead by police, he had fired several times”, Christian Estrosi said.
The condition of the motorcyclist was unknown.
“Human rights are denied by fanatics and France is quite clearly their target”, Holland said early Friday morning, hours after a tractor-trailer slammed through a crowd of Bastille Day revelers on Nice’s famed Promenade des Anglais shortly after the fireworks came to an end.
“There are French among the victims and also many foreigners from every continent and many children, young children”, Hollande said after visiting a hospital.
In a Facebook video, witness Tarubi Wahid Mosta recounted the horror on the promenade. “It looked like a battlefield”, he said. In October 2010, two months before the release of the DHS report, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released the second issue of its English-language magazine, Inspire, which featured two articles written by a militant named Yahya Ibrahim imploring readers to use trucks to kill groups of civilians.
“The motorcyclist attempted to overtake the truck and even tried to open the driver’s door, but he fell and ended up under the wheels of the truck”.
His home town Msaken is about 10 km (six miles) outside the coastal city of Sousse, where a gunman killed 38 people, mostly British holidaymakers, on a beach a year ago.
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“He is a terrorist probably linked to radical Islam one way or another”, Valls told France 2 television’s evening news programme.
