Another 85 people remain in hospital, including a number of Britons. He was shot to death by police.
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The more emotional in the crowd refused to let crews remove the trash until police wearing bullet-proof vests arrived and cooled tensions.
A report in the Nice Matin newspaper on Sunday said investigators had found no radicalization material in his flat, although they were still looking at his telephone and his computer.
“I’ve always said the truth regarding terrorism: there is an ongoing war, there will be more attacks”.
The Islamic State’s media group, Amaq Agency, said an IS “soldier” carried out the attack.
Prosecutor Francois Molins said five suspects now in custody are facing preliminary terrorism charges for their alleged roles in helping 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel in the July 14 attack in the southern French city.
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The woman’s lawyer, Jean-Yves Garino, told BFM-TV that Bouhlel physically abused her and the rest of the family, and she eventually threw him out of the house.
Molins said 71 victims had been officially identified so far, with the authorities taking painstaking measures to avoid errors of identification seen during the Paris attacks last November.
A sea of people thronged the seafront promenade in Nice where the attack took place for an emotional minute’s silence.
France’s interior minister has acknowledged there was no national police presence at the entrance to the pedestrianized walkway in Nice during the Bastille Day truck attack that killed 84 people.
An Albanian couple in Nice were arrested Sunday over the attack and were being held alongside four others.
The son of Fatima Charrihi, a 60-year-old Nice resident from Morocco, said she was the first to die.
Hartley said to her knowledge there were no Americans among the missing anymore.
Expat Barry Gallagher who runs a bar in Nice, said: ‘We have been used to having the army on the streets for a long time now’.
The man drove a 19-tonne truck at high speed into crowds as a fireworks show to mark France’s Bastille Day national holiday came to an end on Thursday. Approximately 2245: Soon after the firework show ends the attacker enters the Promenade des Anglais in the truck and drives down a stretch of about two km (1.5 miles) facing the “Vieille Ville” old quarter where numerous victims were killed.
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Crowds jeered the French prime minister as he joined other officials in Nice to remember victims killed during the lorry rampage on the city’s promenade. Neighbors told The Associated Press that the attacker’s estranged wife was among them.
Sadok Bouhlel spoke in the driver’s hometown of Msaken, Tunisia.
If someone is an extremist of “one or two days vintage” it’s easy to cause mayhem, he said on CNN.
“Everything that should have been done over the past 18 months was not done”, Sarkozy said on TF1 television Sunday night.
Cazeneuve hit back Monday, listing a series of laws and extra police forces created under Hollande’s presidency “to face a threat that France wasn’t prepared for” when he took over from Sarkozy in 2012.
After a special security meeting, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French forces in the USA -led coalition struck IS targets again overnight and on Saturday. Along with Paris and Lyon, it has become one of the main recruiting grounds for jihadis who have left France to fight in Syria.
No group has claimed responsibility, although the attack was celebrated online by Islamic State supporters.
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Cazeneuve says: “These links for now have not been established by the investigation”. The authorities say they never saw a connection between the man and terrorism, so they suspect he was radicalized in a very short period.
