One of the men being held was arrested Friday and three others on Saturday morning, a source said.
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The driver was later shot dead by police.
According to local media reports, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had told police, guarding the promenade that he was delivering ice cream.
In this testimony, Mr Calvar also said he believed Islamic extremists would increase their capacity to kill by using booby-trapped cars and bombs.
What they have so far is a picture of a troubled, angry loner with a record of petty crime and domestic violence, but no known connection to terrorist groups.
They said they were attending the Euro Final soccer match, and security was tight but waned after the event was over. He was born in Msaken, Tunisia but moved to France years ago and was living in the country legally, working as a delivery driver.
At least 84 people have died and 52 are critical after a terrorist drove a truck through crowds in Nice.
“We will overcome the suffering because we are a united France”, he said.
The white-haired father said the family in Tunisia had nearly no contact with his son after he left for France, but he could not say when exactly this was. In March, he was given a six-month suspended sentence by a Nice court for a road-rage incident.
His court-appointed lawyer, Corentin Delobel, said he observed “no radicalisation whatsoever”, and Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Bouhlel was never placed on a watch list for radicals.
Anti-Muslim sentiment appears to be on the rise in France and other areas of Europe where there has been an influx of refugees from Syria and a number of terrorist attacks linked to Islamic State.
While no organisation has claimed responsibility and Islamic State group publications issued on Friday made no reference to the attack, Hollande said France would “step up” military action against IS targets in Syria and Iraq.
Bastille Day, which centres around a Central Intelligence Agency agent trying to counter a bombing in France, was released in an estimated 233 cinemas on Wednesday, just a day before the truck attack that unfolded in Nice during celebrations of the actual Bastille Day, one of the country’s most important holidays.
The apparent attack in Nice is the third in less than two years that has killed more than 100 people and left hundreds more wounded.
Nice: It was an overworked waiter, a busy restaurant, a scouts meeting and a last-minute flight delay that mourners gathered at the Promenade des Anglais in Nice were thanking on Friday. “When people see a woman wearing the veil, people feel themselves attacked, and they reject her”.
“I saw his face, ” Swedish tourist John Lambert told The Associated Press. Inside the driver’s cab lay a loaded handgun, three replica firearms and an empty grenade. A series of attacks in recent years have shown that radical jihadi networks are seemingly able to obtain guns, and even heavier automatic weapons, easily in France.
Damien Allemand, a journalist for the regional newspaper Nice-Matin who was at the waterside, said the fireworks display had finished and the crowd had got up to leave when they heard a noise and cries.
“It shocks me because here’s a guy who comes from the same town as me, ” said hair stylist Morgan Braham, 31.
“I nearly stepped on a corpse, it was awful”.
“We saw people hit and bits of debris flying around”.
The attack was the third major strike against France in less than 18 months and prosecutors said anti-terrorist investigators would handle the probe.
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Athens City Hall is illuminated in the colors of the French national flag in memory of the victims of the Nice attack and in solidarity with the French people in Athens, Greece on July 15, 2016.
