Crowds massed on the Riviera seafront in Nice booed the visiting prime minister Manuel Valls, whose Socialist government is coming under increasing criticism from the public and the conservative opposition for failing to prevent the Bastille Day carnage.
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Speaking on French Inter radio, Mr Valls said before the Euros: ‘We need to tighten the net and give police and intelligence services all the means they need, but we will witness further attacks.
“I know there’s no zero risk, I know perfectly well that we don’t pull each other apart before the victims have even been buried”, he told TF1 TV.
Attacks like the one in Nice don’t necessarily fit the mold of typical terror attacks, counterterrorism expert Daniel Benjamin told the New York Times.
Furious French citizens have placed a pile of rocks and rubbish on the spot where the Nice truck terrorist was killed by police.
The Philippine embassy in Paris yesterday advised Filipinos in Nice and those who plan to travel to France to exercise vigilance and caution, following the terrorist attack in Nice on July 14.
Italy is investigating if the Nice truck attacker recently had contacts with Tunisians living in the southeastern Puglia region, according to news agency ANSA.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had grown a beard in the eight days before he carried out the attack and told friends “the significance of the beard is religious”, prosecutor François Molins told a press conference.
At the home of one of the suspects, an Albanian national, investigators found 11 telephones, cocaine and €2,600 in cash, according to a security official and the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, who oversees terrorism investigations, said attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had clearly plotted out the Bastille Day attack, with reconnaissance visits to the beach-front area where he mowed down revellers.
PARIS/NICE, France Confidence in the capacity of Francois Hollande’s government to combat terrorism has plummeted in the wake of the truck attack that killed 84 people in the southern French coastal city of Nice, an opinion poll published on Monday suggested. It remains unclear whether Isis orchestrated the attack, inspired Bouhlel and was taking responsibility, or was seeking publicity despite having no direct influence.
Cazeneuve hit back Monday, listing a series of laws and extra police forces created under Hollande’s presidency “to face a threat that France wasn’t prepared for” when he took over from Sarkozy in 2012.
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After a special security meeting, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French forces in the U.S-led coalition struck IS targets again overnight and on Saturday.
