France stunned after truck attacker kills 84 on Bastille Day in Nice

France stunned after truck attacker kills 84 on Bastille Day in Nice
Investigators search local apartment after man believed to be 31-year-old French Tunisian turns celebration into carnage
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France has been stunned and sickened by a third massacre in 18 months in which a truck driver mowed down night-time crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the seafront in Nice. He killed at least 84 people and injured scores more, many of them small children.

The armed man, believed to be a 31-year-old French Tunisian who lived locally, zigzagged the vehicle at high speeds for more than a mile along a beachfront esplanade, instantly turning a festival atmosphere of fireworks and families into carnage. Police shot him dead inside the truck’s cabin.

The atrocity was the third major attack to hit the country since the start of last year, following the Charlie Hebdo killings and the massacre of 130 people in Paris in November.

The French president, François Hollande, extended a nine-month state of emergency for another three months, declared three days of national mourning starting on Saturday and then flew to the scene of the outrage.

“We we are facing a long battle because we have an enemy who will continue to hate all the people who enjoy liberty,” he said after visiting the bedside of survivors. In all, 202 people were injured in the attack, with 25 still on life support and 52 in critical condition.

“The whole of France is facing the threat of Islamist terrorism,” said the president, who is coming under increasing pressure to take more decisive action to defend France from its gravest security crisis since 1945.

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Condolences poured in from around the world and officials in London and Washington said leaders were being briefed on the situation. Solidarity rallies were announced in at least a dozen French towns and cities for the weekend.

Investigators began searching a local apartment after finding identity papers in the truck cabin belonging to a French-Tunisian man named locally as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. Locals said he did not appear particularly religious.

Reports said the attacker was known to police for lower-level crimes, such as theft and violence, but had not been put on a watchlist by French intelligence services.

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all of this is washington and the 2000 pound gorilla in the room that no one talks about..Israel and the Jews.

they intend to make the people of the world beg for law, order and peace in the maximum chaos they are creating world wide.  and with the free hand dat will give dem they are going to make a Draco itself..a horrific and draconian Brave New World fuh we..

and the mongrel in the Oval Office has done the most of anyone at all to advance dat program.

When you have attacks like this, and the government or particular leaders come under attack by the press, and the public, honestly what are they supposed to do?

That's like me saying that there was a stabbing of 20 victims in a local store and the killer used a butter knife, the president is doing nothing about it. Well what can he actually do, ban butter knives?

It's ridiculous that people choose to see it the way that they do.