Also Tuesday, Germany’s foreign minister said two students and a teacher from a Berlin school were killed in the attacks. Of these, 203 people are already in France, while 179 others are planning to return in the near future.
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The more emotional in the crowd refused to let crews remove the trash until police wearing bullet-proof vests arrived and cooled tensions.
In the wake of the attack in Nice, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has criticized the government for not doing enough to provide security.
He said the fight against extremists wouldn’t be won “with the tools of peace”.
“We know now that the killer was radicalized very quickly”, he said.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had grown a beard in the eight days before he carried out the attack and told friends “the significance of the beard is religious”, prosecutor François Molins told reporters on Monday.
A South African man who looked on in horror as he careened through the crowd on the Nice promenade, said he looked “calm”. Hours prior to the attack, he took selfies on the seafront.
The suspects are four men – two Franco-Tunisians, a Tunisian and an Albanian – and one woman of dual French-Albanian nationality, Molins said.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was identified by his fingerprints after his driver’s licence, mobile phone and credit card were found inside the vehicle by police. She declined to discuss the injuries saying that the family wants to protect Stratton’s privacy.
In Paris, French President Francois Hollande and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve also held a minute of silence to honor the victims.
One photo concerns a fireworks display on August 15, another a race on January 10 along the Promenade des Anglais where the attack took place, and another showed the opening times of the fan zone during the Euro football tournament. Numerous dead and 308 injured were children.
Any semblance of unity in France following the Bastille Day massacre was shattered Monday by the jeers that greeted Prime Minister Manuel Valls as he joined mourners in the stricken city of Nice. Buildings stood silent across the country.
Parliament on Tuesday was to debate extending the country’s state of emergency for a fourth time after the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 84 dead. He insisted any police “shortcomings” will be carefully addressed, but he defended French authorities’ actions.
Bouhlel, who lived in Nice, was suspected by local police to have committed criminal offenses. Daesh claimed responsibility for the horrendous assaults. A police officer familiar with the matter said investigators also found an Islamic State flag at the apartment.
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Emotions are running high in France after the third major attack in 18 months. French warplanes have been involved in the operation in Iraq and to a lesser degree in Syria. “But, the investigation will establish the facts”.
