He was speaking as a number of people arrested as part of a police inquiry into the attack in Nice arrived under police escort in Paris on Monday for questioning at the headquarters of France’s counter-terrorism department in the western edge of Paris.
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Cazeneuve initially said “national police were present and very present on the Promenade des Anglais” and suggested that their cars were blocking the walkway entrance, in a speech two days after the July 14 attack.
THE Tunisian terrorist who ploughed into a crowd in Nice killing 84 people posed for a smiling selfie inside his truck.
The deaths of 84 people in Nice changed all that.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, jeered by crowds at a remembrance ceremony on Monday and criticised by political opponents over the attack, called for national unity as he presented the emergency rule bill overnight.
The ministry said French authorities on Tuesday confirmed the man’s death.
Around the same time, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel showed a friend a video of a hostage being decapitated, according to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. It said the families had been notified and that the ministry expressed its solidarity “to the family and friends of the victims of the barbarous attack”.
He was originally from the north Tunisian town of Msaken.
Bouhlel’s uncle Sadok Bouhlel claims his nephew was indoctrinated about two weeks ago by an Algerian member of IS in Nice.
Many blame Mr. Hollande’s Socialist administration for not doing enough to prevent terrorism in the country that’s seen three major Islamic State-inspired attacks in the past 18 months.
He lived a life “far from religion”, eating pork, taking drugs and indulging in a “wild” sex life, French prosecutor Francois Molins said.
“We can’t lock people up on the basis of mere suspicion, or suspicion of suspicion”, minister for parliamentary relations Jean-Marie Le Guen said.
Valls noted that now over 2,000 French citizens are involved, to a greater or lesser degree, in the activity of Islamist organizations, including in Syria and Iraq.
As for his connection with larger terrorist networks in France or elsewhere, Cazeneuve said on RTL radio: “These links for now have not been established by the investigation”.
Another has place an image of a middle finger, with the words “F*** Daesh” written across it, the Arabic name for the Islamic State group which has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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A total of 59 people remain in hospital after Thursday’s attack, 29 of them in intensive care, out of 308 people injured overall.
