A truck smashed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people in what President Francois Hollande on Friday called a “terrorist” attack on revellers enjoying a Bastille Day fireworks display.
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Toronto man Ramiro Mora who was visiting Nice, France, with his wife says the horrific attack on the promenade was “an attack on families”.
Dozens of people were killed on Thursday when a gunman drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd in Nice who were celebrating Bastille Day, France’s national holiday.
A woman from Northern Ireland has described fleeing the beach in Nice where a lorry driver ploughed into crowds celebrating France’s national Bastille Day.
“Senseless acts like this one are not isolated events, and we will continue to work with our Allies and partners to fight terrorism in all of its forms”.
Zuma said: “South Africa shares in the grief of the French people and wishes the injured survivors a speedy recovery”.
The French, he said, “are facing a war that terrorism has started against us”.
European Council President Donald Tusk said: “It’s a sad day for France, for Europe, for all of us”. Crouch had been in Dallas last week when five police officers were shot dead at a protest against police brutality.
Asked about this proposal on a conference call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said military cooperation had not been directly discussed at the meeting between Putin and Kerry, which lasted until the early hours of Friday morning.
“We were eating and a huge crowd ran into us and we didn’t know what was going on”, said Maryam Violet. BFMTV reported that the driver was able to access the promenade, which had been sealed off for the celebrations, by telling police he was delivering ice cream.
Christian Estrosi, the regional president in Nice, said some of the city’s 1,200 security cameras had pinpointed the moment the attacker boarded the truck, far from the seaside “in the hills of Nice” and could follow his path to the promenade.
Bouhlel said he witnessed the man emerge with a gun and start shooting, but Toffin said she that, “to my knowledge” there was no gunfire.
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The so-called Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, claimed responsibility for that attack. “Heard noises, cries that I will never forget”. “We didn’t think much of it”, she continued. The consulate said it was working with authorities to determine whether any US citizens were injured. At home, France has become the number one target of opportunity for IS and its supporters, unperturbed by the national state of emergency that has just been extended.
