Molins said that a driver’s license and bank card belonging to Bouhlel were found in the truck.
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Government representatives such as Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski and Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz commemorated the victims killed during Nice’s Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday evening.
In addition, the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve reiterated that the terrorist threat remains high, while he said, “we are at war” against the extremists who want to hit at any price and in an extremely violent way.
Meanwhile, people in France and around the world are mourning the loss of life in what French officials have called an “undeniable act of terror”.
“People went down like ninepins”, Jacques, a restaurant owner on the seafront Promenade des Anglais, told France Info.
“I know I speak for all of us when I say that these individuals and these networks are an affront to all of our humanity”, Obama said, speaking at the Diplomatic Corps Reception in the White House.
Officials told Dina that Bouhlel was born in Tunisia and was a French citizen.
As a truck driver horrifyingly plowed through a crowd in Nice, France, on Thursday night, one fearless man reportedly jumped on the truck to stop it. It was then that police were able to get a good shot at the driver, according to news reports.
Victims of the attack were local residents, tourists, adults and children.
The last time a state of emergency was imposed in New York City was on November 13, 2015, after assailants struck at least six different venues in and around Paris.
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Richard Gutjahr, a 42-year-old German visiting Nice, said we watched while a motorcyclist rode next to the moving truck as it hurtled past barriers blocking off the road and toward the crowd. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, though the attack follows a call by Islamic State (IS) spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani for IS followers to kill non-believers in the West through any means possible. “It is France as a whole which is threatened by Islamist terrorism”. Belgium was the target of a terror attack in March that killed 32 people and injured more than 300.
