The 28-year-old singer was due to play at the Allianz Stadium tonight (15.07.16) as part of her “Anti World Tour” but has pulled out following the tragedy, which saw a truck plough into a crowd of people who were celebrating Bastille Day last night (14.07.16).
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As of Friday evening in Korea, 13 Korean nationals remained unaccounted for in Nice, France, after a truck rampage there left at least 84 dead.
“France has been struck on the day of her national holiday”, Hollande said.
The attacker reportedly shot at a crowd of Bastille Day revelers from a truck and accelerated the vehicle into them, leaving at least 84 people dead and hundreds more injured.
Gutjahr, a freelance journalist, said he also saw two police officers open fire on the truck.
People recalled seeing “bodies flying like bowling pins” during Thursday night’s deadly attack in the southern French city of Nice. The wife has been brought in for questioning.
French officials identified the suspect as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel during a Friday press conference. Ciotti said identification papers were found in the truck and that investigators were trying to determine whether they were legitimate.
The Paris prosecutor’s office is leading the investigation.
Dallas woman Kristen Crouch, visiting Nice for a friend’s wedding, had to take cover in a nearby apartment during the rampage.
“The threat level here in the United Kingdom is already at severe – that means that a terrorist attack is highly likely”, the PM said.
“Nothing will make us yield in our will to fight terrorism. We will continue striking those who attack us on our own soil”. The sources did not say when he had last been resident in Tunisia. Hollande announced a three-month extension to the state of emergency imposed after the November 13 attacks on Paris that killed 130 victims.
It is also believed that three members of France’s national police chased the lorry on foot.
Additional military personnel have been deployed around the country.
“Times have changed, and France is going to have to live with terrorism, and we must face this together”, he said. “The goal of terrorists is to instill fear and panic, and France is a great country and a great democracy that will not allow itself to be destabilized”.
U.S. President Barack Obama made an official statement, proclaiming that “we stand in solidarity and partnership with France, our oldest ally, as they respond to and recover from this attack”. Dozens of other people appealed through social media to find missing loved ones.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for what was the third major attack to hit France in the past 18 months.
