Now people have turned the spot where he died into a garbage pile.
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The site is also becoming a platform for anger at the attacker. Garbage collectors threw the refuse into the back of a garbage truck. But critics are saying that wasn’t enough to protect the several miles-long stretch of the city’s seaside Promenade des Anglais that had been closed to traffic.
His court-appointed lawyer, Corentin Delobel, said he observed “no radicalisation whatsoever” of Bouhlel and Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Bouhlel was never placed on a watch list for radicals. However, they are still probing into the authenticity of the Islamic State’s claim that the attacker was one of their fighters.
“It seems he was radicalized very quickly”, he said.
All seven people taken in for questioning said Bouhlel was violent and unstable.
IS has claimed responsibility for the attack. The official provided no details on their identities and said five people detained previously remain in custody. He said any police “shortcomings” will be carefully addressed but defended French authorities’ actions.
France’s interior minister has acknowledged there was no national police presence at the entrance to the pedestrianized walkway in Nice during the Bastille Day truck attack that killed 84 people.
She said Stratton can not speak and does not remember the attack, “which is better”.
Cook, who was traveling in Europe and came to Nice to assist Stratton, said a French man aided Stratton in the critical period after the attack. “When you have a 19-ton truck, not much is going to stop it – whether a barrier, an officer or a tape line”, he said.
A special church service was being held at a Nice cathedral Sunday in honour of the victims.
Speaking to reporters Saturday, Cazeneuve said that the truck “forced its way through by mounting the sidewalk” to dodge police cars that were blocking the way to the promenade. Numerous dead and 308 injured were children.
Among those at the ceremony in Nice was Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Buildings stood silent across the country.
Two more people have been arrested over the Bastille Day lorry attack in the French city of Nice which killed at least 84 people. “We forgot. We forgot because the Euro went well”, Nathalie Goulet, a senator who headed a commission investigating jihadi recruitment networks, told the AP. But neighbors in the Nice neighborhood where the Bouhlel used to live told The Associated his estranged wife had been taken away by police on Friday.
Bouhlel’s rapid radicalization has puzzled investigators. Friends and family said he had not been an observant Muslim in the past.
Sadok Bouhlel is devastated by his nephew’s act, and doesn’t want him buried in Msaken.
Valls has said there were no failures in Nice.
The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed the attack was carried out by one of its “soldiers” inspired by its calls for civilians to be targeted, though it didn’t name Bouhlel in its statement.
The state of emergency was first brought in after terror attacks in Paris in November that left 130 people dead.
“France has been at the heart of two world wars and they’ve kept on ticking just fine”, said Frank Farley, a past president of the American Psychological Association. On Saturday, Cazeneuve called on “patriotic citizens” to become reservists to help relieve exhausted security forces. French warplanes have been involved in the operation in Iraq and to a lesser degree in Syria.
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Many in France are also angry at police and authorities for not preventing the deadly attack, even though France was under a state of emergency imposed after Islamic State attacks a year ago in Paris.
