No organization has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, though officials are investigating whether the driver had accomplices.
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Sadly, parents may have been faced with the same predicament previous year after the attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead and just last month after a shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 people. “It was completely insane, the crowd panicked and everyone was trying to flee”.
The attack ended when police shot and killed the driver.
The truck was still where it had come to rest, its windscreen riddled with bullets. Fingerprints confirmed Bouhlel’s identity and he was “entirely unknown by intelligence services”, French prosecutor Francois Molins said during a news conference today. He told reporters that in March 2016, Bouhlal received a suspended six-month prison sentence for an assault that happened in January 2016. There were unconfirmed reports the motorcyclist was crushed by the truck.
Joëlle Nouvel, 60, a retired diplomat who has been living in Nice for 15 years, said she was thankful to be alive after a large truck came close to crushing her to death Thursday evening.
The use of trucks that don’t carry any kind of explosive with them, yes as you say is something that has been encouraged.
If we care about the victims of Nice and Paris, we must also care deeply about victims of both state and non-state violence everywhere.
On video, one person could be heard yelling, “Help my mother, please!” A pink girl’s bicycle was overturned by the side of the road.
City council held a moment of silence for the victims of the Nice attack on Friday morning and plans are afoot to light the Toronto sign in the colours of France’s flag tonight.
In a somewhat shocking statement, another France official, a prime minister in Paris, also suggested that perhaps it’s time for the country to “live with terrorism”, and learn to integrate defensive maneuvers into daily life. “We are facing a war that terrorism has brought to us. This is not only an attack on France, but an attack on democracy”.
But Hollande faced public anger after traveling to Nice, 690 kilometers (430 miles) south of Paris, to offer his condolences.
The deadliest recent attack occurred July 3 when a suicide bomber from the Islamic State group killed at least 292 people and wounded another 200 by exploding a minibus in a crowded commercial area of Baghdad. Two Scots were listed as missing.
Nice’s mayor Christian Estrosi has tweeted “tens of people” had been killed in the crash and urged people to stay indoors.
Guns and grenades were also reportedly discovered in the vehicle. Mr. Hollande from the left.
“I saw this enormous white truck go past at top speed”, said Suzy Wargniez, a local woman aged 65 who had watched from a cafe on the promenade.
“We have no specific threats that we have been able to determined against this city” or country, said Bratton, adding there were “no credible threats”.
TUNIS – Tunisian judicial authorities have opened an investigation against “anyone involved in the attacks that shook the French city of Nice on Thursday night”, said the spokesman of the tribunal of Tunis, Sofiene Selliti.
Investigators are still working to determine what weapons – besides the truck – the attacker might have used.
“Attacks aren’t prepared alone”.
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He said that the day is a “symbol of liberty”, and that “human rights are denied by fanatics and France is quite clearly their target”. Broadcast footage showed a scene of horror along Nice’s famous promenade, with broken bodies splayed on the asphalt, some piled near one another, others bleeding onto the roadway or twisted into unnatural shapes.
