Prominent extremist organizations such the Islamic State group responsible for the 2015 Paris attacks, or al-Qaida, responsible for the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo, have not claimed credit for the attack.
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Although the attacker has yet to be officially identified and no hostages were taken, French president Francois Hollande said in a televised statement: “The terrorist character (of the attack) can not be denied”.
Earlier this year Facebook apologized for a glitch in its Safety Check service that sent out misdirected notifications after the Easter Sunday bombing that killed 70 people in Lahore, Pakistan.
“We are facing a war that terrorism is inflicting on us”, Valls said after a meeting in the Elysee Palace, adding “the only response is that of a united France”.
Christian Estrosi, president of the PACA region of France and the former mayor of Nice, confirmed the news that both Rihanna’s concert, as well as the Nice Jazz Festival, had been cancelled. Gutjahr said he saw two police officers open fire on the vehicle. Police said they also found fake guns and fake grenades inside the truck, according to CNN.
A senior French policeman is believed to be among those killed in the Nice terror attack. We can not and will not yield to this malevolence.
Witnesses to the crash reported a horrific scene.
He said the country meant to tighten borders and would show “real force and military action in Syria and Iraq”.
“South Africa stands firmly with the worldwide community in condemning all forms of terrorism and stands in solidarity with the Government of the Republic of France as they mourn the death of their citizens”. “The world is thinking of us”, he said, according to The Guardian. “The goal of terrorists is to instill fear and panic, and France is a great country and a great democracy that will not allow itself to be destabilized”.
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Late on Thursday night, the UN Security Council also condemned in the strongest terms the “barbaric and cowardly” terrorist attack that killed over 84 people, including children, and injured several others, underlining the need to bring the perpetrators of these terrorist acts to justice. The assault on revelers in the southern French city rocked a nation still dealing with the aftermath of two ISIS-inspired attacks in Paris past year that killed 147 people.
