“This is a new type of attack.”
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Around 105 police officers and soldiers were deployed at the festivities, the Interior Ministry told The Associated Press.
The broadcaster said French judicial sources had reported the arrests. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has accused the government of bad policies, which he says failed to prevent three major attacks in the past 18 months.
Francois Molins also said Monday that officials have begun returning to families the remains of some of those who died in the attack in Nice, on the French Riviera.
But fellow residents of the block of flats in the northern suburb of Nice say they cannot believe that Mrs Lahuaiej-Bouhlel, a woman who in the past had worked in an global hotel, who did not appear to be a devout Muslim, and did not wear a headscarf, could have been the accomplice of an abusive former partner she was seeking to divorce.
As the ISIS terror network claimed responsibility on Saturday for the Bastille Day attack in Nice that killed 84 people, France grappled with the realization that it is facing a new kind of threat in which untrained lone terrorists can inflict maximum damage.
And the Socialists have said they will draw the line at some of the opposition’s more controversial demands.
Footage of the attack has been widely shown on the internet – some of it is too brutal to air – but amid the carnage, there were also moments of bravery, including this one, as a motorcyclist rode alongside the truck before trying to get into the cab.
Seven people are in custody in the probe into the Nice attack.
During a visit to Nice on Sunday, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said 18 people, including a child, were still in a critical condition, while about 85 people in total were in hospital.
Four men and one woman aged between 22 and 40 are due to appear before the court for links to Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel who ploughed a truck into the crowded promenade in Nice.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, jeered by crowds at a remembrance ceremony last Monday and criticised by political opponents over the attack, called for national unity when presenting the emergency rule bill overnight. Three of the suspects were brought to French intelligence headquarters in Paris on Monday to face eventual terrorism charges, according to a security official.
“You would have needed a wall of cement to stop him”, he said.
Nice resident Isabel, who declined to give her surname, said she did not boo but understood why tensions are running high.
The aftermath of the Nice attack has seen France being torn by finger-pointing and accusations that security was wanting despite the state of emergency in place since the Paris attacks last November.
Unlike the perpetrators of the Paris attacks, Bouhlel, a petty criminal with a history of violence and depression, did not travel to the Middle East for training or jihad.
Hundreds of French militants have gone to fight alongside IS in Iraq and Syria.
“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 Tuesday. His father, in Tunisia, said his son did not pray or fast for Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
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Nice’s Promenade des Anglais is gradually reopening and becoming a shrine to the dead, with memorials set up on the westbound lane of the road in spots where victims were felled, some still identifiable by bloodstains. Numerous dead and injured were children watching a fireworks display with their families.
