Bouhlel killed 84 people and injured hundreds more when he drove a lorry for over a mile through crowds gathered for Bastille Day celebrations. Three of the suspects were brought to French intelligence headquarters in Paris on Monday to face eventual terrorism charges, according to a security official.
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Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the investigation had not yet found evidence linking attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel to terrorist networks.
One photo in his phone, taken May 25, 2015, was an article on Captagon, a drug said to be used by some jihadis before attacks.
No links found between attacker and Islamic State, despite IS claim of responsibility.
Hollande said “there’s no room for polemics, there’s only room for transparency”.
“Even if these words are hard to say, it’s my duty to do so: There will be other attacks and there will be other innocent people killed”.
On the Promenade in Nice, crowds booed as Manuel Valls, France’s prime minister, arrived Monday with Marison Touraine, the health minister – a reaction that reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the government’s perceived failure to prevent the attack, the third terrorist assault on French soil in 19 months.
Friends and relatives of the 31-year-old father of three, who had a history of violence, told police he showed no interest in religion until recently.
The criticism comes as France’s National Assembly finalized the extension of the state of emergency, a security measure that’s been in place since the November 13 Paris attacks that left 130 dead and were claimed by the Islamic State group.
Some of those killed died at the scene, others while hospitalized, prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said.
The ministry’s spokesman, Rafal Sobczak, confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that French authorities have identified two Polish women among the victims.
Another poll published on Tuesday asked voters who they did not want to see elected leader of France next June: 73 percent said Hollande, but the percentage hostile to far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who some believe will benefit from a climate of voter alienation, topped 60 percent.
The inquiry by an inspectorate widely known in France as the “police of the police” will look into the nitty-gritty detail of how the area was cordoned off for the traditional Bastille Day festivities on July 14 and how the area was patrolled.
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Their comments came after French newspaper Liberation said Mr Cazeneuve lied about the whereabouts of the national police officers and cars, and accused authorities of lacking transparency.
