As the truck mowed down the crowd, Ms. Nouvel crouched on the ground, along with many other people, she said.
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French leaders on Friday extended the country’s 9-month-old state of emergency and vowed to deploy thousands of police reservists on the streets after Thursday night’s massacre of pedestrians leaving a fireworks display for France’s national independence day. “They thought it was some sort of fire crackers going off”, the journalist said.
Molins says bulk of killing is along a 1.9 km stretch from number 11 to 147 of the Promenade des Anglais, where the four lanes of roadway were closed to traffic in each direction and full of pedestrians.
Speaking in Nice on Friday, President Hollande said that approximately 50 of the injured are “between life and death”.
“Attacks are prepared with accomplices”, Estrosi said.
“It is just stunning to people because there were so many police and camouflaged soldiers”.
The attack was a psychological blow not only to the victims but to the French nation and he promises to beat those who would indiscriminately kill his people.
“I would say he was someone who was pleasing to women”, said neighbour Hanan. We stopped in Nice when the fireworks were just coming to an end.
“The doctors said there was a tiny bit of hope”, she said.
“We were standing at the traffic light close to the pedestrian zone. French is a people of immigration since many years and we will continue it. People can’t stop us”, an attendee told Global News as French accordion music could be heard in the background.
“All of a sudden, with all the people, all the families celebrating, this truck was approaching and it was approaching very slowly so it didn’t really rush but you could ask yourself ‘What is a truck doing in the heart of this?” “I won’t forget the look of this policewoman who intercepted the killer”.
“I wanted to see the paradise”, he said. But they came about 20 minutes after the attack.
Inga Romanoff was on holiday with her friends in Nice.
“We saw the helicopter, which is now shown in the photos”.
Video shot by terrified civilians shows crowds fleeing in panic, leaping off the elevated pavement onto the beach below, and police finally surrounding the stationary truck and fatally shooting its driver. “We did not film anything because we had to get away quickly”, Kalinina concluded.
Morocco: Fatima Charrihi, 60, a Nice resident and mother of seven, was among the first to be killed by the Tunisian-born driver, her son Hamza told local media. It is unclear whether he had any accomplices.
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Two Polish women were among 84 people killed in a terrorist attack in the southern French city of Nice on Thursday, according to Polish news website Onet.pl. The Polish foreign ministry has not confirmed the report.
