Hollande has ordered a three-month extention of France’s state of emergency which was set to end later this month.
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The State of Emergency was imposed after the 13 November Paris attack in which Islamic State militants killed 130 people.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy accused the government of bad policies that he says failed to prevent three major attacks in the past 18 months.
Under the act, which was due to be discussed by the Senate on Wednesday, French authoritites would continue to have the power to make house arrests without a court order.
In what represents a backtracking from his previous claim that there was, Bernard Cazeneuve says local police, who are more lightly armed, were guarding the entrance where Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove his truck.
“A search of his computer illustrates a clear. and recent interest in radical jihadism”, Molins said, adding that Bouhlel had recently grown a beard and told people it was for religious reasons.
These are the chilling selfies Bastille Day killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel took with the truck he used to massacre his 84 victims.
A Texas father and son were also killed in the Nice attack.
His computer contained pictures of corpses and fighters posing with the IS flag. A man and a woman were detained on Sunday morning in Nice, according to an official with the Paris prosecutor’s office, which oversees national terrorism investigations.The official provided no details on their identities, and said five people detained previously remain in custody. Was Bouhlel’s attack calculated mass murder by ISIS, now that France and its other backers are turning on it and attacking its positions in the Middle East? In March, he received a suspended sentence for a road-rage incident – not enough to put him on the radar of France’s security services. Friends and family said he had not been an observant Muslim in the past.
About eight months ago, however, he snapped a picture of a news story headlined, “Man deliberately rams auto into cafe terrace”.
On the day of the attack he appeared to have spent much of the national holiday on the promenade, taking selfies.
The Interior Ministry said hundreds of unlicensed weapons – some war-grade – were unearthed in searches that led to a large number of arrests, helping foil several terror plots.
On Monday, French leaders held a moment of silence to mourn the 84 killed in the Bastille Day attack last Thursday. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot dead after he opened fire on police, a prosecutor said.
Under these conditions, it is virtually impossible to determine the character of the Nice attack.
Calling for all foreign-born terror suspects to be deported Sarkozy told TF1 television, “We are at war, outright war”. He called for any foreign nationals with links to radical Islam to be expelled from France, BBC reported.
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Two members of the government, which has urged opponents to show greater political unity in the face of a serious terrorist threat, sounded a conciliatory note ahead of Tuesday evening’s parliamentary debate on the matter.
