The driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, plowed the truck 1.3 miles through the crowd of spectators on Promenade des Anglais, littering the palm-lined street with bodies and sending hundreds more fleeing in terror.
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Reports claim that passers-by take a moment to spit on the rubbish pile to express their disgust with his actions, throwing cigarette butts and plastic bottles on top of it. The word lâche, the French for “coward”, has been written beside the pile.
Numerous dead and injured were children watching a Bastille Day fireworks display with their families.
Criticised by opposition politicians and jeered by crowds at a remembrance ceremony on Monday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls wants lawmakers to back a three-month rollover of the emergency regime imposed after a previous lethal attack last November.
Meanwhile, a mosque in the eastern Nice suburb of Ariane held prayers Tuesday for three of those killed in the truck attack, including 4-year-old Kylan Mejri and his mother, Olfa Kalfallah, 31.
He showed no interest in religion until recently, Mr Molins said, with acquaintances telling people he “ate pork, drank alcohol, took drugs and had an unbridled sexual activity”.
Tributes. People look at the tributes at the new makeshift memorial for the victims of the deadly Bastille Day attack at the Promenade des Anglais on July 19, 2016 in Nice, after it was moved from the pavement of the road to the seafront so that the street can be re-opened.
Francois Molins, who oversees terrorism investigations, said Monday slain attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had showed support for the Islamic State group and searched online for information about the Orlando attack on a gay nightclub.
Authorities have not released an official list naming the dead from the July 14 Bastille Day rampage in the southern French city, but it’s known they include French, Americans, Germans, Ukrainians, Swiss, Tunisians, Polish and a Russian.
“I think we haven’t necessarily learned all of the lessons from the fact that our country is at war”, Pradal told The Associated Press in an interview. Our enemies don’t have no taboos, no borders, no principles.
Hollande called for electronic bracelets for anyone suspected of radicalization and the expulsion of immigrants with possible terrorism links.
“This administrative investigation…will establish the reality of these measures, while unnecessary controversy continues”, he said in a statement.
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Investigators said they had discovered 11 telephones, cocaine and 2,600 euros ($2,900) in the home of one of the suspects, an Albanian national.
