Volunteers moved the tributes from the spots where victims fell to a gazebo in a seaside park.
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It has also emerged that the killer had staked out the seafront for two days before staging the attack.
The operation proceeded solemnly until a column led by police on horseback reached a pile of garbage and trash heaped on the site where police shot to death the attacker.
Some of Nice’s beachside restaurants reopened for business, and the final section of the road was set to reopen to traffic following three days of official mourning.
At the ar-Rahma mosque in the eastern Nice suburb of Ariane, worshippers held prayers for three of those killed in Thursday’s attack, including 4-year-old Kylan Mejri and his mother Olfa Kalfallah, 31.
Cazeneuve said Thursday that only local police, who are more lightly armed, were guarding the entrance to the Promenade des Anglais when Bouhlel drove a 19-metric ton (20-ton) truck onto the sidewalk in Nice before mowing down pedestrians who had gathered to watch a holiday fireworks show.
Alfano’s spokeswoman didn’t immediately return a call for comment, and anti-terrorism police in Bari didn’t immediately respond to a request for confirmation.
Yet elsewhere in the city the grief was still raw as families said farewell to their loved ones and some demanded to know from the authorities how security measures had failed to prevent a man from driving a truck through crowds of revelers in an apparent planned attack that resulted in the worst mass carnage in Nice’s recent history.
While some who knew him said he was not religious, other witnesses said he had recently shown outward signs of becoming devout.
IS has claimed responsibility for the attack.
President Francois Hollande had last Thursday announced a plan to lift the emergency security measures, but changed tack hours later after a truck driver ploughed through a crowd at Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, killing 84 people in an attack later claimed by the Islamic State group.
“We can say that France, with you, is forming a National Guard”, Hollande said on Wednesday on a visit to a military training complex in south-west France.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Tuesday that the country must be prepared for more deadly attacks and will have to “learn to live with the threat”.
Mr Hollande said that of the 331 people injured in the attack, 15 were still fighting for their lives.
The two suspects are among six people who remain in custody, according to an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office, which oversees national terrorism investigations.
The suspects are four men – two Franco-Tunisians, a Tunisian and an Albanian – and one woman of dual French-Albanian nationality, Molins said.
Another student was injured and continues to receive treatment.
Hartley said to her knowledge there were no Americans among the missing anymore. “There’s only room for transparency” when it comes to the Bastille Day rampage that killed 84 people.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel gives the finger from inside the truck he used to commit terrorism. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was loudly booed as he arrived at and left the ceremony on the Nice shore. Buildings stood silent across the country.
Emergency rule has been in place since attacks on Paris last November in which Islamist militants killed 130 people.
The dual French-Tunisian terrorist sent a message form the phone to an unknown accomplice moments before the attack reading, “Bring more weapons…”
He said given his nephew’s personal problems in the time leading up to the attack, whoever nudged him to mass murder “found in Mohamed an easy prey for recruitment”.
Bouhlel’s rapid radicalization has puzzled investigators.
Sadok Bouhlel spoke in the driver’s hometown of Msaken, Tunisia.
“We can’t lock people up on the basis of mere suspicion, or suspicion of suspicion”, minister for parliamentary relations Jean-Marie Le Guen retorted Tuesday. French warplanes have been involved in the operation in Iraq and to a lesser degree in Syria.
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Fifty-nine people are still hospitalized, 29 of them in intensive care.
