A former San Francisco resident vacationing in France said she is lucky to be alive after narrowly escaping Thursday’s terror attacks that killed more than 80 people.
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The claim – circulated on social media by a news outlet affiliated with the group – didn’t name Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old Tunisian who authorities say was behind the wheel as a truck crashed into a crowd of revelers at a fireworks display on Thursday. Eighty four people had died in the incident, and around 200 injured. The dead included numerous foreign tourists and students, and 10 children and teenagers. Because it is a celebration of liberty.
Nathalie Goulet, a French senator who headed a commission investigating jihadi recruitment networks, said such attacks are hard to prevent but questioned whether France could be doing more. The worst occurred in November, when Islamic State-linked extremists attacked the Bataclan concert hall and other sites across Paris, killing 130 people.
Putin, whose relations with the West have been strained over Russian actions in Ukraine and Syria, went on Russian television to convey his condolences to Hollande after apparently being unable to reach him by telephone.
He was known for domestic violence, threats and theft. “They were getting more panicked every time we heard a bang, and we didn’t know what it was at the time, but we know now it was gunshots”.
Such blind hatred adds a new dimension to the terror the French now live with on a daily basis: People of any religion, any background and any age seem to be fair game.
“It seems to be what happened in France after the horrific scene that happened this year”.
“The war on the scourge of Islamist fundamentalism has not begun”.
Germany: A German teacher and two of her students from the capital’s Paula-Fuerst School were killed, the Berlin mayor’s office said.
Canada’s ambassador to France has said that no Canadians have been identified among the dead in Nice at this point. When will we learn?
The extent of the injuries became clear when a hospital official said around 50 children were being treated at a paediatric hospital close to the scene of the attack.
In the Middle East, many messages of sympathy and condemnation were laced with domestic agendas.
“People are scared. A lot of people were here yesterday and they saw other people running when the truck loaded with explosives was just going through the city wiping people out”, Hervieux said.
The European Union is trying to persuade Ankara to narrow the scope of its sweeping anti-terror laws as one of the conditions for granting visa-free travel to Turks.
The investigation “will try to determine whether he benefited from accomplices”, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley, reporting from Nice, says the city has been stunned by the attack.
People gather and lay tributes on the Promenade des Anglais on July 15, 2016 in Nice, France.
“I don’t have words”, said one festival-goer.
Early Friday the truck was still parked where a hail of police bullets had stopped the driver’s deadly spree.
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The Aamaq news agency cited a “security source” as saying the attacker “carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of coalition countries fighting the Islamic State”.
