Bouquets of flowers form a queue along the Promenade des Anglais after people collected them from makeshift memorials to the victims of the truck attack in Nice, France, July 18, 2016.
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Meanwhile, three of six people detained in connection with the attack were brought to the French intelligence headquarters in Paris on Monday to face eventual terrorism charges.
Eighty-four people were killed when Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a hired lorry through crowds gathered to celebrate Bastille Day on Thursday.
In November, the French capital Paris suffered Europe’s worst terror attack for a decade when nine men detonated explosives near the Stade de France stadium and opened fire on people at bars and restaurants, including the Bataclan concert hall.
“We are at war and we will not win the war with the tools of peace”, he said, suggesting that the fight needs to be taken to IS, including in the virtual realm.
The update on the investigation came as French officials rushed to defend the government’s security measures amid criticism following the attack.
Prosecutor Francois Molins said his office, which oversees terrorism investigations, has information from Bouhlel’s phone which shows searches and photos indicating he had been studying an attack since 2015.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack earlier, saying that one of its “soldiers” carried out the attack in response to its calls to target countries from the US-led coalition engaged in airstrikes against the group.
The Nice truck driver who mowed down a crowd of revelers on Bastille Day showed no interest in religion until very recently, according to a French prosecutor.
France’s National Assembly has voted to extend the state of emergency for six months following last week’sattack in Nice.
The third annual auction held Wednesday night by the Titanic-star’s foundation honored victims and survivors of the recent tragedy in the neighboring city of Nice.
In a statement Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said French authorities had formalized the identification overnight.
France’s interior minister says investigators have no evidence so far that the truck driver who killed 84 people in Nice had links to “terrorist networks”.
Bouhlel’s uncle Sadok Bouhlel claims his nephew was indoctrinated about two weeks ago by an Algerian member of IS in Nice.
Nice resident Isabel, who declined to give her surname, said she did not boo but understood why tensions are running high. Cazeneuve said 59 people were still hospitalized after Thursday’s attack, 29 of them in intensive care, out of 308 people injured overall.
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French President Francois Hollande is defending his government’s military actions against Islamic extremists – even while acknowledging they are part of the reason extremists have repeatedly attacked his country.
