Witnesses described seeing how Bouhlel purposely steered the truck to hit men, women and children as they tried to flee. Garbage collectors threw the refuse into the back of a garbage truck.
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The final section of the Promenade des Anglais is scheduled to reopen to traffic on Tuesday morning, following three days of official mourning.
The man responsible for turning a night of celebration into one of carnage in the seaside city of Nice was a petty criminal who hadn’t been on the radar of French intelligence services before the attack.
Edwin Bakker, Professor at the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, said Islamic State’s claim did not necessarily point to any formal link.
The truck was rented on Monday and was supposed to have been returned Wednesday, Molins said, without saying who rented it. Surveillance video shows that about two hours before the attack Thursday, Bouhlel rode a bicycle to pick up the truck east of the city, the prosecutor said.
A lawyer for one of those detained by police said his client hadn’t recognized any signs of radicalism in Bouhlel.
An Irish man for whom there was concern following the attack has been confirmed as safe and well. It said 64 members of the national police were deployed more than the original plan called for along with 42 from municipal police and 20 soldiers. It’s the first claim of responsibility for an attack that claimed 84 lives at a July 14 fireworks display for France’s national holiday.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said Saturday that five people are in custody following the attack.
He lost his wife in the attack and was hunting Saturday for his four-year-old son. Thursday’s killing spree now underlined the difficulties of guarding against attacks when an everyday vehicle can be turned into a devastating weapon. Three of the suspects were brought to French intelligence headquarters in Paris yesterday to face eventual terrorism charges, according to a security official. They wouldn’t elaborate on the relationship between the suspect and attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who was killed by police after ramming a truck through a crowd watching fireworks. “For two and a half years now we have suffered from these attacks”.
She said Stratton can not speak and does not remember the attack, “which is better”.
The disruption to the film’s run comes after its original February and March release dates in the United Kingdom and Germany respectively were pushed back after the Paris terror attacks in November past year.
“A complete stranger stayed with her in the immediate stages after she was injured and went in the ambulance”.
A minute’s silence will be held across France later on Monday in memory of the victims. 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.
The Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for the truck massacre in Nice which France said was “a new kind of attack”, as it faced hard questions over security failures. Earlier, Cazaneuve had told French TV that he could not confirm whether Bouhlel was linked to radical Islam.
Investigators are also continuing to look into Bouhlel’s possible path to radicalisation.
“The guy didn’t observe Ramadan, the minimum to be considered a good Muslim”, he said, referring to the Muslim fasting month that ended late June.
Defending his government’s record, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told Le Monde newspaper in an interview that even with all the measures being taken, “there can never be zero risk”.
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A spokeswoman for the Nice hospital said 16 bodies had not yet been identified. It alleges that the attacker was responding to its calls to target citizens of countries in the coalition fighting ISIS. Whether those were sufficient is part of the investigation now being conducted, he said.
