Other victims hailed from more than a dozen nations. Hospital workers said at least 10 of the dead were teenagers or children. To cite just one example, almost 300 people died in a busy Baghdad shopping district on July 3.
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France was wrapping up a three-day period of national mourning after Lahouaiej Bouhlel zigzagged a 19-tonne truck through a crowd of tourists, locals and families enjoying a fireworks display on Bastille Day. “He said: ‘Why am I thin?'”
“I want to call on all French patriots who wish to do so, to join this operational reserve”, Mr Cazeneuve said.
Nathalie’s face was framed by a modest white head covering when she spoke with The Washington Times on Saturday.
“Mohamed Sifaou, an expert on Islamic radicalisation also said on BFMTV that the radicalisation can even happen on the same day as a suicide attack because “.Islamic ideologists are saying that dying as a martyr forgives all sins”.
The site is also becoming a platform for anger at the attacker.
In addition to the 84 killed, more than 200 were injured.
France’s health minister says about 85 people remain hospitalized after a deadly truck rampage in the Mediterranean city of Nice, and 18 of them are in life-threatening condition – including one child.
The attacker had a record of petty crime – though no obvious ties to a terrorist group – but the French prime minister swiftly said Bouhlel was “a terrorist probably linked to radical Islam one way or another”. He drove his truck along a waterfront promenade, turning the Bastille Day celebrations into a killing field.
“In terms of the actual attack, there needs to be recognition that little can be done short of creating a police state – and France is already in a state of emergency – to stop lone individuals or small groups of individuals from carrying out such attacks”.
Four acquaintances of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel as well as an Albanian couple were in custody for questioning, Agence France-Presse reported.
The woman was released Sunday. The attacker, 31-year-old Tunisian delivery driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, was shot dead by police in the immediate aftermath.
“The claim on Saturday morning by Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] and the fast radicalization of the killer confirm the Islamist nature of this attack”, the Prime Minister stated.
“So there is no foolproof security system and there never will be because terrorism is a form of asymmetrical warfare in which anything (a lorry, a kitchen knife) can be used in an attack”, Dr Hewitt added.
The truck hurtles into the crowd on the Nice promenade.
The French government is defending its efforts to fight Islamic State extremists overseas and at home, announcing new airstrikes against their strongholds in the past two days.
According to information obtained by Europe 1, he traveled twice on the Promenade des Anglais Tuesday 12 July and Wednesday 13 July, the day before and the day before the attack.
There’s no evidence to indicate Bouhlel, who was Muslim, was actually operating on behalf of or in allegiance to ISIS, though friends and family say he had recently become radicalized.
Reports were circulating in the media and on social networks that Bouhlel was planning to send the money he garnered to his relatives in Tunisia, but these claims were formally denied by a source close to the investigation according to Nice Matin.
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Speaking from his hometown in Tunisia, Bouhlel’s sister told the news agency that her brother experienced psychological problems when he left for France in 2005 and sought medical treatment.
