Tunisian man Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice. They also said they were not aware of Bouhlel holding radical or Islamist views, saying he had a French residence permit for the past 10 years without obtaining French nationality.
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“A woman was there, she lost her son”. The website includes a list of government efforts, a directory of organizations and resources for victims and information about terrorist attacks. But neighbors in the Nice neighborhood where the Bouhlel used to live told The Associated his estranged wife had been taken away by police on Friday. Urvoas said Bouhlel received a suspended sentence and was required to post bail and appear at a Nice police station once a week.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Guillaume Long said, “we are shocked by this horrendous and horrifying attack in France”. “French is a people of immigration since many years and we will continue it. People can’t stop us”, an attendee told Global News as French accordion music could be heard in the background.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry through crowds marking Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday before he was shot dead by police. He was divorced and has three children.
“We will further strengthen our actions in Syria and Iraq”, Hollande said, calling the tragedy – on the day France marks the 1789 revolutionary storming of the Bastille prison in Paris – an attack on liberty by fanatics who despised human rights.
“My thoughts go out to the people of France today”.
The deaths rocked a nation still dealing with the aftermath of attacks in November in Paris that killed 130 and in January 2015 that killed 17. This is also a signal for us to unite more resolutely in our fight against the worldwide terrorism.
Mr. Obama said he spoke to French President Francois Hollande on Friday and reminded him that France is the U.S.’s “oldest ally and one of its strongest”.
Leeds has paid a symbolic tribute to the victims of the Nice terror attack that left at least 84 people dead on Thursday.
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Shaqki Allam, the grand mufti of Egypt, the country’s highest Muslim religious authority, called the attack “despicable” and said Islamic teachings “never called for bloodshed or the killing of innocents regardless of their beliefs and faith”.
