The app, called SAIP, was launched by the interior ministry just before the Euro 2016 soccer championship and was supposed to flash a warning on a user’s mobile phone screen if there was an attack close to their location or suspicion of an imminent strike.
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84 people were killed in the incident.
Jihadi chiefs have specifically called on global followers to carry out attacks against France, which has been one of the leading members of the coalition and has vowed to redouble its efforts to smash the terror group following the Nice atrocity.
“An action plan has been demanded without delay so that such an incident can not happen again”, the ministry said.
Deveryware did not immediately return a request for comment.
Records show that the 19-ton truck that was rammed through the seaside crowd in Nice was rented in the outskirts of the city on July 11 and overdue on the night of the attack.
Several officers were seen grappling with a man at the rear of the truck which drove for more than a mile targeting innocent tourists walking along the popular Promenade des Anglais in the city.
Ten of the dead were children.
An ISIS-linked news agency has claimed that Nice attacker Mohamed Bouhlel was a “soldier” of the terrorist group.
“France was struck on the day of its national holiday, July 14, the symbol of liberty”, Hollande said. He was known to French police, but not to intelligence officials.
While his court-appointed lawyer said that he observed no radicalization in the father of three, who was said to be fond of chasing women and drinking, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve insisted that the 31-year-old was “radicalized very quickly”.
“I’m not an investigator, but if the necessary measures had been taken, the catastrophe wouldn’t have happened”, the Journal quoted Alain Juppé, a former prime minister and the current mayor of Bordeaux, as saying.
“Even when Daesh is not the organiser, Daesh breathes life into the terrorist spirit that we are fighting”, he said, using an Arabic name for IS.
Bouhlel had been in France for 10 years and lived locally.
Bouhlel was known to police for petty crimes but was not on a watch list of suspected militants.
In September 2014, IS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, suggested supporters “run (infidels) over with your car”.
French authorities and media have yet to produce any evidence that the killer, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was radicalised.
His father said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had violent episodes during which “he broke everything he found around him”.
“From 2002 to 2004, he had problems that caused a nervous breakdown”.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the attack bore the hallmarks of jihadist terrorism.
Another neighbour, who did not want to be named, said she knew Bouhlel’s wife and described her as a “really lovely woman, who doesn’t deserve all this”.
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Witnesses said the driver swerved from side to side as he drove for hundreds of metres along the Promenade des Anglais on the seafront, before he was shot dead by police.
