Relative of the victims of the Bastille Day attack confort each other as they gather in front of Pasteur Hospital in Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016.
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GWENT politicians have paid tribute to the 84 people killed in Nice after a terrorist deliberately drove a truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day. Not much is known about Bouhlel or if he had any official ties to groups, but police are investigating the attack as a terrorist incident.
According to the center’s website, attendees will be subject to bag checks and metal detectors at the gate.
He said so far there is no evidence Bouhlel, who had three children, had any association with any religious group or faction but that there was evidence he was estranged from his family and going through some kind of divorce.
“I have tears in my spirit about this young policeman, who acted so that the killer could be neutralized and put an end to the carnage”, Hollande said.
HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani have also sent cables of condolences and consolation to President Hollande on the victims of the terrorist attack, QNA said.
The driver of the truck was shot dead after barrelling two kilometres through the crowd, sending hundreds fleeing in terror and leaving the area strewn with bodies.
While he had several run-ins with the law previously, Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Nice resident born in Tunisia, was not on a watch list of French intelligence services as a suspected militant.
French prosecutor Francois Molins said the truck was rented on July 11 and was loaded with automatic weapons, bullets and a grenade.
He hailed from the town of Msaken – 10 miles from Sousse, where an ISIS-claimed attack killed 39 people at a beach resort past year.
The attack Thursday night on France’s national holiday rocked a nation still dealing with the aftermath of attacks in November in Paris that killed 130 and in January 2015 that killed 17.
According to one city official, the rented truck careered on for up to 2km.
More than 200 people on the Promenade des Anglais were injured.
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Hollande said France’s state of emergency, set to end later this month, would be extended another three months.
