The woman was released Sunday.
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Before 2230: The attacker rides his bike to the Auriol neighbourhood in Nice, where he loads his bike into the parked truck and gets behind the wheel. Crowds massed on the Riviera seafront booed the visiting prime minister, whose Socialist government is coming under increasing criticism from the public and the conservative opposition for failing to prevent the Bastille Day carnage.
French authorities said six people are in custody in connection with the attacks.
Nicolas Leslie, a University of California, Berkeley, student who was missing after a truck drove through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 84, died in the attack, the school said Sunday, relaying information it had received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In addition to the claim of the attack by the Islamic State, the ideological mobile truck this attack that killed 84 people and injured more than 200 therefore be based on the statements of a man.
An official with a special victims’ center in Nice told reporters Sunday that 16 bodies remain unidentified, and forensic experts are working with DNA samples to determine their identities. The official did not give his name.
Eighty-four people died in Thursday’s attack and 85 remain in hospital.
Many families are angry that they couldn’t find information about missing loved ones, and many are angry at police for not preventing the deadly attack despite France being under a state of emergency imposed after Islamic State attacks previous year in Paris.
The truck attack in Nice, France, has shattered the Marzouk family.
He prayed that God “disperse every plan for terror and for death, so that no man dare spill more blood of his brother”.
Mr. Lahouaiej Bouhlel appeared not to have left behind any public declaration of his motive or indicated any allegiance to the Islamic State or another extremist group…. The source said investigators made the link after cross-referencing case files after the attack.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it’s unclear whether Bouhlel had concrete links to the group.
“It seems he was radicalized very quickly”, Cazeneuve said following a ministerial meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
She urged any survivors to seek counselling offered by the government.
Relative and friends interviewed in Nice painted a picture of a man who at least until recently drank alcohol, smoked marijuana and according to French media even ate pork, behaviour that would be unlikely in a devout Muslim.
While authorities have said little publicly about their investigation, a French security official told The Associated Press on Sunday that Bouhlel sold his vehicle just before the attack, which ended only when he was killed by police. Bouhlel’s estranged wife was arrested at her apartment Friday and released Sunday morning without charge, her attorney, Jean-Yves Garino, told CNN.
He also took a selfie at the wheel of the 19-tonne truck in the days before he ploughed it into a crowd of people who had been enjoying a fireworks display on Bastille Day, France’s national day, killing 84 and injuring about 300. The ISIS statement said he was following their calls to target citizens of countries fighting the extremists.
Nice’s famous Promenade des Anglais, the site of the slaughter, has reopened. Some spots are still identifiable by bloodstains. He also sold his auto the day before the attack. Pained and outraged epitaphs are now written in blue maker on stones placed where police shot him dead.
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France is holding a three-day national period of mourning for the victims of the attack, and French president Francois Hollande has extended the state of emergency in place since the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.
