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2016 Nice truck attack

January 10, 2023

On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injury of 458 others.[4][5] The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in France.[6][7] The attack ended following an exchange of gunfire, during which Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot and killed by police.

2016 Nice truck attack
Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe
The Promenade des Anglais, the site of the attack
Route of the attacker from west to east
LocationPromenade des Anglais, Nice, France
Coordinates43°41′37″N 7°15′21″E / 43.6936°N 7.2557°E / 43.6936; 7.2557Coordinates: 43°41′37″N 7°15′21″E / 43.6936°N 7.2557°E / 43.6936; 7.2557
Date14 July 2016
c. 22:30 – 22:35 CEST
Attack type
Vehicle-ramming attack
WeaponsRenault Midlum cargo truck, 7.65mm pistol[1]
Deaths87 (including the perpetrator)[2][3]
Injured434
AssailantMohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel
MotiveIslamic extremism

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, saying Lahouaiej-Bouhlel answered its "calls to target citizens of coalition nations that fight the Islamic State". On 15 July, François Molins, the prosecutor for the Public Ministry, which is overseeing the investigation, said the attack bore the hallmarks of jihadist terrorism.[8]

On 15 July, French President François Hollande called the attack an act of Islamic terrorism, announced an extension of the state of emergency (which had been declared following the November 2015 Paris attacks) for a further three months, and announced an intensification of French airstrikes on ISIL in Syria and Iraq.[9][10] France later extended the state of emergency until 26 January 2017.[11] The French government declared three days of national mourning starting on 16 July. Thousands of extra police and soldiers were deployed while the government called on citizens to join the reserve forces.

On 21 July, prosecutor François Molins said that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel planned the attack for months and had help from accomplices.[12][13][14] By 1 August, six suspects had been taken into custody on charges of "criminal terrorist conspiracy", three of whom were also charged for complicity in murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise. On 16 December three further suspects, allegedly involved in the supply of illegal weapons to Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, were charged.[15][16][17] The attack has been classified as jihadist terrorism by Europol.[18]

Background

 
Bastille Day celebrations on beach below Promenade des Anglais, 2014

On the morning before the attack, French President François Hollande said the national state of emergency, put in place after the November 2015 Paris attacks, would end after the 2016 Tour de France finished on 26 July 2016.[19] France had just finished hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament, during which the country had extensive security measures in place. Some matches were played in Nice, ending with the England–Iceland match on 27 June.[20]

On the evening of 14 July in Nice, the Bastille Day celebrations on the waterfront Promenade des Anglais, dubbed "Prom'Party" by the city of Nice,[21] drew crowds of 30,000 and included an aerial display by the French Air Force.[22]

The Promenade des Anglais had been closed to traffic and, as in preceding years, a long section had been converted into a pedestrian zone. The customary Bastille Day fireworks display took place between 22:00 and 22:20.[23][24][25][26]

Attack

Timeline of attack

11 July:

14 July:

  • 21:34 – Lahouaiej-Bouhlel reported to have arrived on bicycle in Auriol quarter of Nice to recover truck.[30]
  • c. 22:00 – Lahouaiej-Bouhlel reported to have arrived in Magnan quarter of Nice.[24][31]
  • 22:27 – Lahouaiej-Bouhlel reported to have sent SMS message concerning firearms.[32][33][34]
  • c. 22:30 – Lahouaiej-Bouhlel turned truck eastward onto Promenade des Anglais near the Fondation Lenval Children's Hospital.[24][35][36][37]
  • 22:33 – Municipal police at Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen report truck.[38][39]
  • 22:35:47 – The truck came to a halt next to the Palais de la Méditerranée hotel.[40]
  • c. 22:35 – Lahouaiej-Bouhlel shot dead by police.[6][26][41]
All times are CEST (UTC+2).
 
Annotated map showing course of attack along the Promenade des Anglais
 
The white truck, a Renault Midlum,[42] in the distance[clarification needed] on the Promenade des Anglais on the morning after the attack
 
A pair of shoes lie on the ground in the rush shortly after the attack

On 14 July in Nice, at approximately 22:30, just after the end of the Bastille Day fireworks display, a white 19 tonne Renault Midlum cargo truck emerged from the Magnan quarter of Nice turning eastward on to the Promenade des Anglais, then closed to traffic, near the Fondation Lenval Children's Hospital.[35][41][43]

Travelling at close to 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph) and mounting onto the pavement as if out of control, it hit and killed numerous bystanders before passing the Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, where it was first reported by municipal police.[39][44][45] 400 metres (1,300 ft) from the children's hospital, at the intersection with Boulevard Gambetta, the truck accelerated and mounted on to the kerb to force its way through the police barriers—a police car, a crowd control barrier and lane separators[46]—marking the beginning of the pedestrianised zone.[47]

Having broken through the barrier, the truck, driving in a zigzag fashion, knocked down random members of the crowd milling about on the pavement and in the three traffic lanes on the seaward side of the Promenade.[26] The driver tried to stay on the pavement—returning to the traffic lanes only when blocked by a bus shelter or pavilion—thus increasing the number of deaths.[48] After reaching the Hotel Negresco, the progress of the truck, already travelling more slowly, was further slowed down by a passing cyclist, whose attempts to open the cabin door were abandoned after being threatened with a gun through the window.[49] This was followed by a motorcyclist, in pursuit from the Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, who threw his scooter under the front wheels of the truck at the intersection with rue Meyerbeer, mounted the truck and struck blows at the driver from the running board before being hit with the butt of the driver's gun, suffering moderate injuries as he fell off the truck's side.[50][51][52][53] The driver fired several shots at police from his 7.65 mm firearm, close to the Hotel Negresco,[54] as police arrived; they returned fire with their 9mm Sig Sauer handguns, gave chase to the vehicle and attempted to disable it.[44][55]

The truck travelled a further 200 metres (660 ft) until, in a badly damaged state, it came to halt[56] at 22:35 next to the Palais de la Méditerranée approximately five minutes after the start of the attack.[35][41] There, two national police officers shot and killed the driver.[6][26][41]

Immediate aftermath

Multiple bullet holes were seen in the windscreen and cab of the truck.[41][56][57] The entire attack took place over a distance of 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi), between numbers 11 and 147 of the Promenade des Anglais, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and creating high levels of panic in the crowds.[58] Some were injured as a result of jumping onto the pebbled beach several metres below the Promenade.[59]

In addition to the firearm used during the attack, an ammunition magazine, a fake Beretta pistol, a dummy grenade, a replica Kalashnikov rifle, and a replica M16 rifle were found in the cabin of the truck. Also recovered were a mobile phone and personal documents, including an identity card, a driver's licence, and credit cards. There were several pallets and a bicycle in the rear of the truck.[60][61][62]

Perpetrator

Main article: Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel
 
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, on his residency permit

Personal life

French police identified the perpetrator as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old man of Tunisian nationality,[63] born in Tunisia, with a French residency permit and living in Nice.[7] His parents live in Tunisia and rarely heard from him since he moved to France in 2005.[64] His father said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel underwent psychiatric treatment before he moved to France.[65] He married a French-Tunisian cousin, living in Nice, with whom he had three children. According to his wife's lawyer, he was repeatedly reported for domestic violence and the couple separated.[66]

After this separation, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had a wild sex life according to the prosecutor,[67] and had engaged in sexual relations with both men and women, according to an unnamed source.[68] He was known to French police for five prior criminal offences; notably for threatening behaviour, violence, and petty theft.[69] Neighbours reported that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel rarely spoke to them.[70]

François Molins, the prosecutor leading the inquiry into the possible involvement of organised Islamist terrorism, announced on 18 July that information gathered since the attack suggested that, except for a short period leading up to the attack, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was "a young man completely uninvolved in religious issues and not a practising Muslim, who ate pork, drank alcohol, took drugs and had an unbridled sex life."[71]

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel sent small sums of money regularly to his family in Tunisia, according to his brother. However, days before the attack, in a surprising move, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel persuaded some friends to smuggle bundles of cash worth 100,000 euros illegally to his family.[72]

Motives

The investigation suggested that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel became radicalised shortly before the attack. Prosecutor Molins said that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had a "clear, recent interest in the radical jihadist movement".[73] Newspapers reported, on the authority of investigators, that evidence found on Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's cellphone showed he may have been in contact[72][74] with individuals in his neighborhood who were known to the French intelligence agencies as Islamic radicals. However, an intelligence source cautioned that this "could just be a coincidence, given the neighbourhood where he lived. Everyone knows everyone there. He seems to have known people who knew Omar Diaby", a known local Islamist believed to be linked with Al Nusra Front.[72]

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's computer showed he had carried out Internet searches on the topics "terrible fatal accidents", "horrible fatal accidents", and "shocking video, not for sensitive people"[75][76] and consulted news articles on fatal accidents,[76] including on 1 January 2016 an article[76][77] or a photo[75][78] from a local newspaper about a car crash[77] with the caption: "He deliberately crashes onto the terrace of a restaurant".[75][76][77]

According to French authorities, friends of Lahouaiej-Bouhlel said he began attending a mosque in April 2016.[79] Prosecutor Molins said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had expressed admiration for ISIL to one of the now-interrogated suspects.[75][80] A few months before the attack, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had shown friends an ISIL beheading video on his phone,[81] and had said to one of the now-arrested suspects, "I'm used to seeing that".[75] Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's computer contained photos of ISIL fighters and ISIL beheadings,[75] of dead bodies, of Osama bin Laden, Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the Islamic State flag, a cover of Charlie Hebdo, and images linked to radical Islamism.[81]

In the weeks before the attack, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel consulted many websites with treatises on Quranic Surahs, sites with Islamic religious chants, and sites of ISIL propaganda.[75] He also expressed extremist views, friends told the police.[79] An uncle of Lahouaiej-Bouhlel in Tunisia said that his nephew had been indoctrinated about ten days before the attack by an Algerian ISIL member in Nice.[82] Lahouaiej-Bouhlel grew a beard only eight days before the attack, which he told friends was for religious reasons.[76][81] An eyewitness interviewed by the newspaper Nice-Matin recounted hearing, from his balcony, "Allahu Akbar" being shouted three times during the attack;[83][84] similar claims were circulated on social media and in the press.[85][86][87] Officials have not confirmed the shouting of "Allahu Akbar", while the BBC reported that the rumours about it on social media were "fake".[86]

Preparations

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's mobile phone, found in the truck after he was shot by police, gave police information about his preparations.[88] On 12 and 13 July 2016, Bouhlel returned several times to the Promenade des Anglais, the site of the attack, surveying the area in the rented truck. On 12 July, he took some selfies on the Promenade, as Molins confirmed on 18 July.[75][89][90] Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's brother said he received images of Lahouaiej-Bouhlel laughing among the holiday crowds in Nice hours before the attack.[91]

Victims

The attacker killed 84 people and injured 434,[92][8][93][94] 52 critically; 25 remained on life support the next day; an 85th person died from injuries three weeks after the attack,[2] and an 86th just over a month after the attack.[3] On 17 July 65 injured were still in hospital, 18 in critical condition.[4][95] Fourteen of the dead were children. The figure of 434 indicates the total number of people admitted into hospital with injuries due to the attack; some of whom were not admitted immediately. Of the 86 dead, 43 were French nationals and the remaining 43 were foreign nationals of eighteen countries.[96] A regional Islamic association claimed "more than one third" of the victims were Muslims.[97][98]

By 19 July, French authorities had formally identified the then 84 victims, with detailed lists published by Agence France-Presse. Two days later, the Hôtel de Ville in Nice was draped with two long black banners recording the names of these 84 victims.[96][99]

Investigation

 
Hotel Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais was used for triage of the victims.[54]

Late on 14 July, the ministère public of Paris,[141] which has national responsibility for combating terrorism, opened an inquiry into "murder and attempted murder by an organised gang connected to a terrorist organisation" and "criminal terrorist conspiracy".[26][142] The investigations for the inquiry were assigned to the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) and the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI).[26]

  • On 15 July, prosecutor François Molins of the ministère public in Paris[26] said that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel appeared to have not been known to French or Tunisian intelligence agencies to have ties to terror groups,[8][94][143] nor was he registered as a national security risk (fiche "S") with French authorities.[63]
  • On 17 July, Minister of the Interior Cazeneuve said he believed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had been radicalised quickly, and Molins said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had a "clear, recent interest in the radical jihadist movement".[73]
  • On 18 July, Molins said the attack could be described as "terrorism" as defined by French law.[76]
  • On 21 July, Molins announced that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel seemed to have planned the attack for several months and to have received assistance.[78]

Arrests

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife was arrested on 15 July,[69][144] but was then released two days later.[145] Also, a man was arrested on 15 July.[69][144] On 16 July, three more men were arrested.[69][144] On 17 July, a man and a woman, both Albanians, were arrested in Nice following a police raid the previous day.[146][147]

On 25 July, two more men were arrested after photographs of them were found on Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's mobile phone.[148][149][150] One was released after five days,[151] while the other was charged with conspiracy in relation to a terrorist enterprise, just like five of the people arrested on 15–17 July.[78]

Alleged accomplices

By 21 July, three men with Tunisian origins and an Albanian couple, all previously unknown to the French intelligence agencies, had been charged by the ministère public with "criminal conspiracy in relation to a terrorist enterprise".[78] The three men were also charged with complicity in murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise. A sixth male suspect was later charged with conspiracy in relation to a terrorist enterprise.

  • Ramzi A., a French-Tunisian born in Nice, aged 21.[78] He was suspected of having "participated in supplying the automatic pistol of the killer".[78][152] While under arrest, he disclosed the location of a Kalashnikov rifle. On the night of the attack, at 22:27, he received a text message from Lahouaiej-Bouhlel: "I wanted to tell you that the pistol you brought me yesterday was very good, so bring five more from your friend's place. They're for Chokri and his friends".[78][153] Molins, the French prosecutor, disclosed that Ramzi A. had a previous police record for petty crime and drugs.[154]
  • Mohamed Walid G., a French-Tunisian born in Tunisia, aged 40[78] or 41.[155] In January 2015, shortly after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, this suspect allegedly sent a text message to Lahouaiej-Bouhlel saying, "I am not Charlie ... I am happy, they have brought soldiers of Allah to finish the job."[b][156] Between July 2015 and July 2016, Bouhlel and this suspect contacted each other by telephone 1,278 times.[14] Photos on Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's telephone, dated 11 and 13 July, showed him with Bouhlel in the truck used for the attack.[78] Molins, the French prosecutor, said that the suspect filmed the scene of the attack on the Promenade des Anglais during the night of 14–15 July, when it was filled with emergency services and journalists, before taking a selfie.[157][158][14][78]
  • Chokri C., a Tunisian aged 37.[158] This suspect allegedly sent Lahouaiej-Bouhlel a Facebook message in April 2016, which read, "Load the truck with 2,000 tons of iron ... release the brakes my friend, and I will watch."[c][78] Fingerprints of this suspect were found on the passenger door of Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's truck,[156] and CCTV footage showed him seated next to Lahouaiej-Bouhlel as he drove the truck along the Promenade des Anglais on the evening of 12 July.[78]
  • Artan H., an Albanian, aged 38; and his Albanian-born wife Enkeledgia Z., aged 42, who had dual French-Albanian nationality.[78] This couple were suspected of "participat[ing] in supplying the automatic pistol of the killer",[78][152] and breaking the law on weapons in relation to a terrorist enterprise.[d][155][159][154]
  • Hamdi Z., a Tunisian, aged 36. He was arrested on 25 July and charged with conspiracy in relation to a terrorist enterprise.[e] He had been recorded on Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's mobile phone in a selfie with Lahouaiej-Bouhlel taken next to the truck.[151] He was transferred to Paris on 1 August for further questioning.[160][161]

Reactions

French government

 
French flag at half-mast in Tours on the day after the attack, which was followed by three days of national mourning
 
Memorial at the site of the attack
 
Tributes on the Promenade des Anglais

15 July

French President François Hollande said that he had consulted his Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, and was returning to Paris from Avignon, expecting to arrive in the French capital at 01:15h to have an emergency Interior Ministry meeting regarding the attacks.[162]

At 00:59h, Cazeneuve initiated the ORSEC plan, the French emergency plan for disasters.[163]

At 03:47h, Hollande addressed the French nation in a televised broadcast from Paris.[8][9] He assessed that "the terrorist nature of this attack can't be denied"[9][164] and linked the attack to Islamic terrorism:[9] "all of France is being menaced by fundamentalist Islamic terrorism".[10] He announced a three-month extension of the state of emergency, previously due to end on 26 July,[8] announced an intensification of the French military attacks on ISIL in Syria and Iraq,[9] and announced that more security personnel would be deployed.[citation needed]

Prime Minister Manuel Valls later that day announced three days of national mourning on 16–18 July.[8]

Valls said in the France 2 television's evening news programme at 8:00 p.m. on 15 July, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was "probably linked to radical Islam one way or another".[165][166][167] Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, on the coinciding television news of TF1:[167] "We have an individual who was not known to intelligence services for activities linked to radical Islam", when asked whether he could confirm the attacker's motives were linked to jihadism he replied: "No".[8][167]

16–17 July

On 16 July French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said: "I remind you that Daesh's ideologue, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, has for several weeks repeated calls to attack directly, even individually, Frenchmen, in particular, or Americans, wherever they are, by any means necessary ... It is murder, and Daesh's claim of responsibility comes later, as has happened in other recent events".[168]

Bernard Cazeneuve on 16 July, after ISIL had claimed the attacker as one of its soldiers, said: if Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was radicalised, "It seems that he was radicalised very quickly — in any case these are the elements that have come up from the testimony of the people around him."[169]

Cazeneuve on 16 or 17 July announced plans to increase security in response to the attack by calling 12,000 police reservists to add to the 120,000 person force. He urged "all patriotic citizens" to join the reserve forces to boost security following the attacks.[170]

18 July and later

On 18 July, France observed a one-minute silence in remembrance of those killed in the attack. In Nice, as the Prime Minister arrived to observe the silence, the crowd booed him and some shouted for his resignation, with some calling him a murderer.[171][172] President Hollande was similarly booed by crowds when visiting Nice the day after the attack.[173] The booing was described by BBC as "unprecedented", who commented that it was "a stark warning of how the mood in the country has changed" in comparison to public responses after other recent major terrorist attacks in France.[172]

On 21 July, the state of emergency was formally extended until 31 January 2017.[174]

A week after the attack, the anti-terror directorate of the National Police (SDAT) requested that the local authorities in Nice destroy CCTV footage of the attack, arguing that leaked images would compromise the dignity of victims and could be used as propaganda by terrorist organizations. The request has been refused by local authorities who have argued that the CCTV footage might provide evidence that the National Police had placed inadequate security measures on the Promenade des Anglais on 14 July.[175][176]

On 26 July 2016, three Nice residents who had chased the truck during the attack were presented with medals for bravery by the local authorities in Nice.[51]

On 14 July 2017, president Macron said during a remembrance ceremony in Nice "This rage, I know, many of you still carry it in the pit of your stomach, ... Everything will be done in order for the republic, the state and public authorities to regain your trust.”[177]

French public ministry

François Molins, prosecutor of the ministère public (le parquet) in Paris[26] – the authority ('public ministry') responsible for defending French society with regard to terrorism – stated on 15 July that the Nice attack bore the hallmarks of jihadist terrorism.[8] On 18 July, Molins said the attack could be described as "terrorism" as defined by French law.[76]

The Republicans

On 15 July, Alain Juppé, former prime minister of France and one of the final two candidates[178] to become the Republican candidate for the April–May 2017 presidential election; and Christian Estrosi, former Nice mayor, raised the question of whether more could have been done to prevent the attack.[179]

In September 2016, François Fillon, the other Republican candidate in the French presidential election, published a book titled "Defeating Islamic Totalitarianism" (Vaincre le totalitarisme islamique), in which he advocated a stricter state surveillance on the Muslim community and more attention to the French identity.[180][181] He also wrote that France was "at war" with radical Islam.[180]

National Front

Marine Le Pen, president of the National Front party and candidate for the April–May 2017 presidential election, said in a Le Figaro interview, "I'm furious, because I hear the same words, notice the same reflexes in the political class, but see no action that contributes one ounce of supplemental security".[f][182] She judged it "urgent to attack the ideology that is the basis of this terrorism" and regretted that "nothing" was decided for the closing down of the salafist mosques.[182]

International

 
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lay flowers near French embassy in Moscow, 15 July 2016

Leaderships of 49 countries and five supranational bodies expressed abhorrence of the attack and condolences for families and for France. US President Barack Obama labelled the attack as possible terrorism,[8][183][184] as did German Chancellor Angela Merkel.[185]

Claim of ISIL responsibility

On 16 July, the Amaq News Agency, called Lahouaiej-Bouhlel "a soldier of the Islamic State." It cited an "insider source" which said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel "executed the operation in response to calls to target citizens of coalition nations, which fight the Islamic State".[186][187]

Later that same day, ISIL's official al-Bayan radio station said the attacker executed a "new, special operation using a truck" and "the crusader countries know that no matter how much they enforce their security measures and procedures, it will not stop the mujahideen from striking."[188][189]

Islamic and Christian responses

The first Islamic funeral ceremony of victims of the attack took place on 19 July in the Ar-Rahma (The Mercifulness) mosque, the oldest in Nice and the largest in Alpes-Maritimes. Last honours of the Islamic community were rendered to a 23-year-old Tunisian woman, her 4-year-old child, and a young man. Rector and imam Otmane Aïssaoui said in his sermon, "The sole frontier for which one should halt is this: the respect for a man, for a woman, irrespective of their colour of skin, their origin. A truth one can find in the Gospel, in the Torah, even in Buddhism!" Citing a Quranic verse, he said, "At the Last Judgment, [Lahouaiej-Bouhlel] will be asked: 'why did you kill that little child of four years old?'"[190]

Also invited to speak was the priest of the nearby Catholic[191] church Saint-Pierre d'Ariane. Father Patrick Bruzzone said, "My brothers ... I say 'my brothers' because, today more than ever, when one man is hurt, the whole of humanity is hurt."[190]

On 21 July, a commemoration was held for "people of all religions and even beyond that" in Catholic church Saint-Pierre d'Arène, located near the area where the attack had taken place. The priest and the vicar called for "the calming down, necessary for taking at hand our common future in this torn city and in the whole country. To contemplate together, in order to solidly reconstruct the social ties that now are increasingly crumbled and largely ruined".[190]

On 24 September, Pope Francis met 800 family members of the victims of the attack in Rome.[192]

Social media

Immediately after the attack, while it still remained unclear whether the threat had ended, people used social media, particularly Twitter, to help others find shelter, using the hashtag #PortesOuvertesNice (Open Doors Nice), a variation of a hashtag used in other recent attacks in France.[193]

On 14 and 15 July, the French government urged social media users to only share reliable information from official sources, while false rumours circulated that hostages had been taken, that the Eiffel Tower had been attacked and set on fire, and that Cannes had also been attacked.[86]

After-effects

 
Memorial in Nice in September 2016
 
Memorial sign outside Musée Masséna, Nice

Cultural

Organisers of the 20th Nice Jazz Festival, scheduled to begin on 16 July, cancelled the event in the wake of the attack.[194] Rihanna cancelled a concert scheduled as a part of her Anti World Tour for 15 July at Nice's Allianz Riviera.[195] At London's Royal Albert Hall on 15 July, the opening night of the 2016 Proms Festival paid tribute to the people of Nice, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing a rendition of "La Marseillaise".[196] In December 2016, an American musician faSade, who witnessed the attack, published a music video of a song that paid tribute to the victims, featuring images of the attack's aftermath.[197]

In August, the European Cycling Union decided to move the 2016 European Road Championships, which were to be hosted on 14–18 September in Nice, to Plumelec in the northwest of France, due to security concerns in Nice after the 14 July attack.[198]

Financial markets

European stocks opened lower and then closed mixed on Friday 15 July (the day after the attacks) as investor sentiment was dampened by the attack in France. The pan-European STOXX 600 was down by 0.38%, the French CAC 40 by 0.4%, and German DAX by 0.4%. The British FTSE 100 fell by 0.2% before closing up by 0.22%, down at 0.32% in STOXX 600, 0.6% in CAC 40, and 0.01% in DAX.[199] Airlines, along with other travel share, were some of the hardest hit companies, with Flybe and EasyJet down by around 3.7 per cent and three per cent respectively.[200]

Tourism

Cancellations and last-minute changes to European holidays rose in the summer, with travellers increasingly concerned about the threat of terrorism. Other terrorist attacks in Belgium and Turkey prompted holidaymakers to cancel their bookings or seek out other destinations perceived to be safe. The Nice attack, along with the recent failed coup in Turkey, were expected to add to the pressure. "This is not going to be a good year," European Tour Operators Association chief executive Tom Jenkins said. "There is a real suppression of demand for destinations like Belgium and France."[201]

Tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims

On the week after 14 July, some Nice inhabitants noticed and deplored increasing anti-Muslim and racist rhetoric in their quarters. Some non-Muslims said that their view on Muslims had changed. "We're in Europe and I think some of the oriental rites are somehow incompatible," a local man said.[202]

Before the attack, on 8 June, the carcass of a pig had been found in front of a mosque in Nice. Two suspected men were charged and the court's judgement was expected to be filed on 12 October. On the morning of 11 October, the imam of that same mosque found the head and pelt of a pig mounted before the mosque's entrance.[203]

Raids and house arrests under state of emergency

As of August 2016, under the state of emergency put in force since November 2015 and extended after the Nice attack,[9][174] around 3,600 houses had been raided.[needs update] The raids resulted in six terrorism-related inquiries, only one of which led to prosecution. Most raids were reportedly connected with narcotics, not with terrorism, implying misuse of the new powers of emergency.[204] Previously, as of May 2016, under the emergency law, house arrest had been imposed on 404 people, mostly Muslims of North African descent. Many French citizens that were placed under house arrest allegedly lost jobs or employment opportunities as a result.[204] By mid-November 2016, some people had been under house arrest for nearly a year during which no judicial inquiry against them had been started.[205]

On 15 November, President Hollande announced his intention to prolong the state of emergency until the French presidential elections on 23 April and 7 May 2017.[205]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Including: 2 dual Estonian-Russian citizens
  2. ^ Je ne suis pas Charlie ... Je suis content. Ils ont ramené les soldats d'Allah pour finir le travail, a reference to the phrase Je suis Charlie
  3. ^ Charge le camion, met dedans 2.000 tonnes de fer, et nique, coupe lui les freins mon ami, et moi je regarde.
  4. ^ "infractions à la législation sur les armes en relation avec une entreprise terroriste"
  5. ^ "association de malfaiteurs en relation avec une entreprise terroriste criminelle"
  6. ^ "Je suis très en colère, parce que j'entends les mêmes mots, constate les mêmes réflexes dans la classe politique, mais ne vois aucun acte apportant une once de sécurité supplémentaire."

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2016, nice, truck, attack, evening, july, 2016, tonne, cargo, truck, deliberately, driven, into, crowds, people, celebrating, bastille, promenade, anglais, nice, france, resulting, deaths, people, injury, others, driver, mohamed, lahouaiej, bouhlel, tunisian, . On the evening of 14 July 2016 a 19 tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice France resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injury of 458 others 4 5 The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel a Tunisian living in France 6 7 The attack ended following an exchange of gunfire during which Lahouaiej Bouhlel was shot and killed by police 2016 Nice truck attackPart of Islamic terrorism in EuropeThe Promenade des Anglais the site of the attackRoute of the attacker from west to eastLocationPromenade des Anglais Nice FranceCoordinates43 41 37 N 7 15 21 E 43 6936 N 7 2557 E 43 6936 7 2557 Coordinates 43 41 37 N 7 15 21 E 43 6936 N 7 2557 E 43 6936 7 2557Date14 July 2016 c 22 30 22 35 CESTAttack typeVehicle ramming attackWeaponsRenault Midlum cargo truck 7 65mm pistol 1 Deaths87 including the perpetrator 2 3 Injured434AssailantMohamed Lahouaiej BouhlelMotiveIslamic extremismThe Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack saying Lahouaiej Bouhlel answered its calls to target citizens of coalition nations that fight the Islamic State On 15 July Francois Molins the prosecutor for the Public Ministry which is overseeing the investigation said the attack bore the hallmarks of jihadist terrorism 8 On 15 July French President Francois Hollande called the attack an act of Islamic terrorism announced an extension of the state of emergency which had been declared following the November 2015 Paris attacks for a further three months and announced an intensification of French airstrikes on ISIL in Syria and Iraq 9 10 France later extended the state of emergency until 26 January 2017 11 The French government declared three days of national mourning starting on 16 July Thousands of extra police and soldiers were deployed while the government called on citizens to join the reserve forces On 21 July prosecutor Francois Molins said that Lahouaiej Bouhlel planned the attack for months and had help from accomplices 12 13 14 By 1 August six suspects had been taken into custody on charges of criminal terrorist conspiracy three of whom were also charged for complicity in murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise On 16 December three further suspects allegedly involved in the supply of illegal weapons to Lahouaiej Bouhlel were charged 15 16 17 The attack has been classified as jihadist terrorism by Europol 18 Contents 1 Background 2 Attack 2 1 Immediate aftermath 3 Perpetrator 3 1 Personal life 3 2 Motives 3 3 Preparations 4 Victims 5 Investigation 5 1 Arrests 5 2 Alleged accomplices 6 Reactions 6 1 French government 6 1 1 15 July 6 1 2 16 17 July 6 1 3 18 July and later 6 2 French public ministry 6 3 The Republicans 6 4 National Front 6 5 International 6 6 Claim of ISIL responsibility 6 7 Islamic and Christian responses 6 8 Social media 7 After effects 7 1 Cultural 7 2 Financial markets 7 3 Tourism 7 4 Tensions between Muslims and non Muslims 7 5 Raids and house arrests under state of emergency 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 External linksBackground Edit Bastille Day celebrations on beach below Promenade des Anglais 2014 On the morning before the attack French President Francois Hollande said the national state of emergency put in place after the November 2015 Paris attacks would end after the 2016 Tour de France finished on 26 July 2016 19 France had just finished hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament during which the country had extensive security measures in place Some matches were played in Nice ending with the England Iceland match on 27 June 20 On the evening of 14 July in Nice the Bastille Day celebrations on the waterfront Promenade des Anglais dubbed Prom Party by the city of Nice 21 drew crowds of 30 000 and included an aerial display by the French Air Force 22 The Promenade des Anglais had been closed to traffic and as in preceding years a long section had been converted into a pedestrian zone The customary Bastille Day fireworks display took place between 22 00 and 22 20 23 24 25 26 Attack EditTimeline of attack 11 July Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel rented a 19 tonne Renault Midlum 270 cargo truck in Saint Laurent du Var 24 27 28 29 14 July 21 34 Lahouaiej Bouhlel reported to have arrived on bicycle in Auriol quarter of Nice to recover truck 30 c 22 00 Lahouaiej Bouhlel reported to have arrived in Magnan quarter of Nice 24 31 22 27 Lahouaiej Bouhlel reported to have sent SMS message concerning firearms 32 33 34 c 22 30 Lahouaiej Bouhlel turned truck eastward onto Promenade des Anglais near the Fondation Lenval Children s Hospital 24 35 36 37 22 33 Municipal police at Centre Universitaire Mediterraneen report truck 38 39 22 35 47 The truck came to a halt next to the Palais de la Mediterranee hotel 40 c 22 35 Lahouaiej Bouhlel shot dead by police 6 26 41 All times are CEST UTC 2 Annotated map showing course of attack along the Promenade des Anglais The white truck a Renault Midlum 42 in the distance clarification needed on the Promenade des Anglais on the morning after the attack A pair of shoes lie on the ground in the rush shortly after the attack On 14 July in Nice at approximately 22 30 just after the end of the Bastille Day fireworks display a white 19 tonne Renault Midlum cargo truck emerged from the Magnan quarter of Nice turning eastward on to the Promenade des Anglais then closed to traffic near the Fondation Lenval Children s Hospital 35 41 43 Travelling at close to 90 kilometres per hour 56 mph and mounting onto the pavement as if out of control it hit and killed numerous bystanders before passing the Centre Universitaire Mediterraneen where it was first reported by municipal police 39 44 45 400 metres 1 300 ft from the children s hospital at the intersection with Boulevard Gambetta the truck accelerated and mounted on to the kerb to force its way through the police barriers a police car a crowd control barrier and lane separators 46 marking the beginning of the pedestrianised zone 47 Having broken through the barrier the truck driving in a zigzag fashion knocked down random members of the crowd milling about on the pavement and in the three traffic lanes on the seaward side of the Promenade 26 The driver tried to stay on the pavement returning to the traffic lanes only when blocked by a bus shelter or pavilion thus increasing the number of deaths 48 After reaching the Hotel Negresco the progress of the truck already travelling more slowly was further slowed down by a passing cyclist whose attempts to open the cabin door were abandoned after being threatened with a gun through the window 49 This was followed by a motorcyclist in pursuit from the Centre Universitaire Mediterraneen who threw his scooter under the front wheels of the truck at the intersection with rue Meyerbeer mounted the truck and struck blows at the driver from the running board before being hit with the butt of the driver s gun suffering moderate injuries as he fell off the truck s side 50 51 52 53 The driver fired several shots at police from his 7 65 mm firearm close to the Hotel Negresco 54 as police arrived they returned fire with their 9mm Sig Sauer handguns gave chase to the vehicle and attempted to disable it 44 55 The truck travelled a further 200 metres 660 ft until in a badly damaged state it came to halt 56 at 22 35 next to the Palais de la Mediterranee approximately five minutes after the start of the attack 35 41 There two national police officers shot and killed the driver 6 26 41 Immediate aftermath Edit Multiple bullet holes were seen in the windscreen and cab of the truck 41 56 57 The entire attack took place over a distance of 1 7 kilometres 1 1 mi between numbers 11 and 147 of the Promenade des Anglais resulting in the deaths of 86 people and creating high levels of panic in the crowds 58 Some were injured as a result of jumping onto the pebbled beach several metres below the Promenade 59 In addition to the firearm used during the attack an ammunition magazine a fake Beretta pistol a dummy grenade a replica Kalashnikov rifle and a replica M16 rifle were found in the cabin of the truck Also recovered were a mobile phone and personal documents including an identity card a driver s licence and credit cards There were several pallets and a bicycle in the rear of the truck 60 61 62 Perpetrator EditMain article Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel Lahouaiej Bouhlel on his residency permit Personal life Edit French police identified the perpetrator as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel a 31 year old man of Tunisian nationality 63 born in Tunisia with a French residency permit and living in Nice 7 His parents live in Tunisia and rarely heard from him since he moved to France in 2005 64 His father said Lahouaiej Bouhlel underwent psychiatric treatment before he moved to France 65 He married a French Tunisian cousin living in Nice with whom he had three children According to his wife s lawyer he was repeatedly reported for domestic violence and the couple separated 66 After this separation Lahouaiej Bouhlel had a wild sex life according to the prosecutor 67 and had engaged in sexual relations with both men and women according to an unnamed source 68 He was known to French police for five prior criminal offences notably for threatening behaviour violence and petty theft 69 Neighbours reported that Lahouaiej Bouhlel rarely spoke to them 70 Francois Molins the prosecutor leading the inquiry into the possible involvement of organised Islamist terrorism announced on 18 July that information gathered since the attack suggested that except for a short period leading up to the attack Lahouaiej Bouhlel was a young man completely uninvolved in religious issues and not a practising Muslim who ate pork drank alcohol took drugs and had an unbridled sex life 71 Lahouaiej Bouhlel sent small sums of money regularly to his family in Tunisia according to his brother However days before the attack in a surprising move Lahouaiej Bouhlel persuaded some friends to smuggle bundles of cash worth 100 000 euros illegally to his family 72 Motives Edit The investigation suggested that Lahouaiej Bouhlel became radicalised shortly before the attack Prosecutor Molins said that Lahouaiej Bouhlel had a clear recent interest in the radical jihadist movement 73 Newspapers reported on the authority of investigators that evidence found on Lahouaiej Bouhlel s cellphone showed he may have been in contact 72 74 with individuals in his neighborhood who were known to the French intelligence agencies as Islamic radicals However an intelligence source cautioned that this could just be a coincidence given the neighbourhood where he lived Everyone knows everyone there He seems to have known people who knew Omar Diaby a known local Islamist believed to be linked with Al Nusra Front 72 Lahouaiej Bouhlel s computer showed he had carried out Internet searches on the topics terrible fatal accidents horrible fatal accidents and shocking video not for sensitive people 75 76 and consulted news articles on fatal accidents 76 including on 1 January 2016 an article 76 77 or a photo 75 78 from a local newspaper about a car crash 77 with the caption He deliberately crashes onto the terrace of a restaurant 75 76 77 According to French authorities friends of Lahouaiej Bouhlel said he began attending a mosque in April 2016 79 Prosecutor Molins said Lahouaiej Bouhlel had expressed admiration for ISIL to one of the now interrogated suspects 75 80 A few months before the attack Lahouaiej Bouhlel had shown friends an ISIL beheading video on his phone 81 and had said to one of the now arrested suspects I m used to seeing that 75 Lahouaiej Bouhlel s computer contained photos of ISIL fighters and ISIL beheadings 75 of dead bodies of Osama bin Laden Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar the Islamic State flag a cover of Charlie Hebdo and images linked to radical Islamism 81 In the weeks before the attack Lahouaiej Bouhlel consulted many websites with treatises on Quranic Surahs sites with Islamic religious chants and sites of ISIL propaganda 75 He also expressed extremist views friends told the police 79 An uncle of Lahouaiej Bouhlel in Tunisia said that his nephew had been indoctrinated about ten days before the attack by an Algerian ISIL member in Nice 82 Lahouaiej Bouhlel grew a beard only eight days before the attack which he told friends was for religious reasons 76 81 An eyewitness interviewed by the newspaper Nice Matin recounted hearing from his balcony Allahu Akbar being shouted three times during the attack 83 84 similar claims were circulated on social media and in the press 85 86 87 Officials have not confirmed the shouting of Allahu Akbar while the BBC reported that the rumours about it on social media were fake 86 Preparations Edit Lahouaiej Bouhlel s mobile phone found in the truck after he was shot by police gave police information about his preparations 88 On 12 and 13 July 2016 Bouhlel returned several times to the Promenade des Anglais the site of the attack surveying the area in the rented truck On 12 July he took some selfies on the Promenade as Molins confirmed on 18 July 75 89 90 Lahouaiej Bouhlel s brother said he received images of Lahouaiej Bouhlel laughing among the holiday crowds in Nice hours before the attack 91 Victims EditThe attacker killed 84 people and injured 434 92 8 93 94 52 critically 25 remained on life support the next day an 85th person died from injuries three weeks after the attack 2 and an 86th just over a month after the attack 3 On 17 July 65 injured were still in hospital 18 in critical condition 4 95 Fourteen of the dead were children The figure of 434 indicates the total number of people admitted into hospital with injuries due to the attack some of whom were not admitted immediately Of the 86 dead 43 were French nationals and the remaining 43 were foreign nationals of eighteen countries 96 A regional Islamic association claimed more than one third of the victims were Muslims 97 98 By 19 July French authorities had formally identified the then 84 victims with detailed lists published by Agence France Presse Two days later the Hotel de Ville in Nice was draped with two long black banners recording the names of these 84 victims 96 99 Nationalities of victims Nationality Dead Injured Ref France 43 391 100 Italy 5 4 101 102 Algeria 5 103 Morocco 4 1 104 Kazakhstan 4 105 Tunisia 4 106 107 Germany 3 2 108 109 Estonia 2 2 110 111 112 Russia 2 3 a 112 106 113 114 Switzerland 2 115 116 United States 2 117 Poland 2 118 Romania 1 4 119 106 120 Madagascar 1 4 121 Brazil 1 3 122 123 124 Ukraine 1 2 125 126 Belgium 1 116 Armenia 1 115 127 Italy United States 1 128 Georgia 1 129 Australia 3 130 131 Portugal 4 132 Netherlands 2 133 China 3 134 Czech Republic 1 135 Hungary 1 136 Ireland 1 137 Malaysia 1 138 Singapore 1 115 139 United Kingdom 1 140 Total 86 434 8 Investigation Edit Hotel Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais was used for triage of the victims 54 Late on 14 July the ministere public of Paris 141 which has national responsibility for combating terrorism opened an inquiry into murder and attempted murder by an organised gang connected to a terrorist organisation and criminal terrorist conspiracy 26 142 The investigations for the inquiry were assigned to the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police DCPJ and the General Directorate for Internal Security DGSI 26 On 15 July prosecutor Francois Molins of the ministere public in Paris 26 said that Lahouaiej Bouhlel appeared to have not been known to French or Tunisian intelligence agencies to have ties to terror groups 8 94 143 nor was he registered as a national security risk fiche S with French authorities 63 On 17 July Minister of the Interior Cazeneuve said he believed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had been radicalised quickly and Molins said Lahouaiej Bouhlel had a clear recent interest in the radical jihadist movement 73 On 18 July Molins said the attack could be described as terrorism as defined by French law 76 On 21 July Molins announced that Lahouaiej Bouhlel seemed to have planned the attack for several months and to have received assistance 78 Arrests Edit Lahouaiej Bouhlel s estranged wife was arrested on 15 July 69 144 but was then released two days later 145 Also a man was arrested on 15 July 69 144 On 16 July three more men were arrested 69 144 On 17 July a man and a woman both Albanians were arrested in Nice following a police raid the previous day 146 147 On 25 July two more men were arrested after photographs of them were found on Lahouaiej Bouhlel s mobile phone 148 149 150 One was released after five days 151 while the other was charged with conspiracy in relation to a terrorist enterprise just like five of the people arrested on 15 17 July 78 Alleged accomplices Edit By 21 July three men with Tunisian origins and an Albanian couple all previously unknown to the French intelligence agencies had been charged by the ministere public with criminal conspiracy in relation to a terrorist enterprise 78 The three men were also charged with complicity in murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise A sixth male suspect was later charged with conspiracy in relation to a terrorist enterprise Ramzi A a French Tunisian born in Nice aged 21 78 He was suspected of having participated in supplying the automatic pistol of the killer 78 152 While under arrest he disclosed the location of a Kalashnikov rifle On the night of the attack at 22 27 he received a text message from Lahouaiej Bouhlel I wanted to tell you that the pistol you brought me yesterday was very good so bring five more from your friend s place They re for Chokri and his friends 78 153 Molins the French prosecutor disclosed that Ramzi A had a previous police record for petty crime and drugs 154 Mohamed Walid G a French Tunisian born in Tunisia aged 40 78 or 41 155 In January 2015 shortly after the attack on Charlie Hebdo this suspect allegedly sent a text message to Lahouaiej Bouhlel saying I am not Charlie I am happy they have brought soldiers of Allah to finish the job b 156 Between July 2015 and July 2016 Bouhlel and this suspect contacted each other by telephone 1 278 times 14 Photos on Lahouaiej Bouhlel s telephone dated 11 and 13 July showed him with Bouhlel in the truck used for the attack 78 Molins the French prosecutor said that the suspect filmed the scene of the attack on the Promenade des Anglais during the night of 14 15 July when it was filled with emergency services and journalists before taking a selfie 157 158 14 78 Chokri C a Tunisian aged 37 158 This suspect allegedly sent Lahouaiej Bouhlel a Facebook message in April 2016 which read Load the truck with 2 000 tons of iron release the brakes my friend and I will watch c 78 Fingerprints of this suspect were found on the passenger door of Lahouaiej Bouhlel s truck 156 and CCTV footage showed him seated next to Lahouaiej Bouhlel as he drove the truck along the Promenade des Anglais on the evening of 12 July 78 Artan H an Albanian aged 38 and his Albanian born wife Enkeledgia Z aged 42 who had dual French Albanian nationality 78 This couple were suspected of participat ing in supplying the automatic pistol of the killer 78 152 and breaking the law on weapons in relation to a terrorist enterprise d 155 159 154 Hamdi Z a Tunisian aged 36 He was arrested on 25 July and charged with conspiracy in relation to a terrorist enterprise e He had been recorded on Lahouaiej Bouhlel s mobile phone in a selfie with Lahouaiej Bouhlel taken next to the truck 151 He was transferred to Paris on 1 August for further questioning 160 161 Reactions EditFrench government Edit French flag at half mast in Tours on the day after the attack which was followed by three days of national mourning Memorial at the site of the attack Tributes on the Promenade des Anglais 15 July Edit French President Francois Hollande said that he had consulted his Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve and was returning to Paris from Avignon expecting to arrive in the French capital at 01 15h to have an emergency Interior Ministry meeting regarding the attacks 162 At 00 59h Cazeneuve initiated the ORSEC plan the French emergency plan for disasters 163 At 03 47h Hollande addressed the French nation in a televised broadcast from Paris 8 9 He assessed that the terrorist nature of this attack can t be denied 9 164 and linked the attack to Islamic terrorism 9 all of France is being menaced by fundamentalist Islamic terrorism 10 He announced a three month extension of the state of emergency previously due to end on 26 July 8 announced an intensification of the French military attacks on ISIL in Syria and Iraq 9 and announced that more security personnel would be deployed citation needed Prime Minister Manuel Valls later that day announced three days of national mourning on 16 18 July 8 Valls said in the France 2 television s evening news programme at 8 00 p m on 15 July Lahouaiej Bouhlel was probably linked to radical Islam one way or another 165 166 167 Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on the coinciding television news of TF1 167 We have an individual who was not known to intelligence services for activities linked to radical Islam when asked whether he could confirm the attacker s motives were linked to jihadism he replied No 8 167 16 17 July Edit On 16 July French Defence Minister Jean Yves Le Drian said I remind you that Daesh s ideologue Abu Muhammad al Adnani has for several weeks repeated calls to attack directly even individually Frenchmen in particular or Americans wherever they are by any means necessary It is murder and Daesh s claim of responsibility comes later as has happened in other recent events 168 Bernard Cazeneuve on 16 July after ISIL had claimed the attacker as one of its soldiers said if Lahouaiej Bouhlel was radicalised It seems that he was radicalised very quickly in any case these are the elements that have come up from the testimony of the people around him 169 Cazeneuve on 16 or 17 July announced plans to increase security in response to the attack by calling 12 000 police reservists to add to the 120 000 person force He urged all patriotic citizens to join the reserve forces to boost security following the attacks 170 18 July and later Edit On 18 July France observed a one minute silence in remembrance of those killed in the attack In Nice as the Prime Minister arrived to observe the silence the crowd booed him and some shouted for his resignation with some calling him a murderer 171 172 President Hollande was similarly booed by crowds when visiting Nice the day after the attack 173 The booing was described by BBC as unprecedented who commented that it was a stark warning of how the mood in the country has changed in comparison to public responses after other recent major terrorist attacks in France 172 On 21 July the state of emergency was formally extended until 31 January 2017 174 A week after the attack the anti terror directorate of the National Police SDAT requested that the local authorities in Nice destroy CCTV footage of the attack arguing that leaked images would compromise the dignity of victims and could be used as propaganda by terrorist organizations The request has been refused by local authorities who have argued that the CCTV footage might provide evidence that the National Police had placed inadequate security measures on the Promenade des Anglais on 14 July 175 176 On 26 July 2016 three Nice residents who had chased the truck during the attack were presented with medals for bravery by the local authorities in Nice 51 On 14 July 2017 president Macron said during a remembrance ceremony in Nice This rage I know many of you still carry it in the pit of your stomach Everything will be done in order for the republic the state and public authorities to regain your trust 177 French public ministry Edit Francois Molins prosecutor of the ministere public le parquet in Paris 26 the authority public ministry responsible for defending French society with regard to terrorism stated on 15 July that the Nice attack bore the hallmarks of jihadist terrorism 8 On 18 July Molins said the attack could be described as terrorism as defined by French law 76 The Republicans Edit On 15 July Alain Juppe former prime minister of France and one of the final two candidates 178 to become the Republican candidate for the April May 2017 presidential election and Christian Estrosi former Nice mayor raised the question of whether more could have been done to prevent the attack 179 In September 2016 Francois Fillon the other Republican candidate in the French presidential election published a book titled Defeating Islamic Totalitarianism Vaincre le totalitarisme islamique in which he advocated a stricter state surveillance on the Muslim community and more attention to the French identity 180 181 He also wrote that France was at war with radical Islam 180 National Front Edit Marine Le Pen president of the National Front party and candidate for the April May 2017 presidential election said in a Le Figaro interview I m furious because I hear the same words notice the same reflexes in the political class but see no action that contributes one ounce of supplemental security f 182 She judged it urgent to attack the ideology that is the basis of this terrorism and regretted that nothing was decided for the closing down of the salafist mosques 182 International Edit U S Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lay flowers near French embassy in Moscow 15 July 2016 Leaderships of 49 countries and five supranational bodies expressed abhorrence of the attack and condolences for families and for France US President Barack Obama labelled the attack as possible terrorism 8 183 184 as did German Chancellor Angela Merkel 185 Claim of ISIL responsibility Edit On 16 July the Amaq News Agency called Lahouaiej Bouhlel a soldier of the Islamic State It cited an insider source which said Lahouaiej Bouhlel executed the operation in response to calls to target citizens of coalition nations which fight the Islamic State 186 187 Later that same day ISIL s official al Bayan radio station said the attacker executed a new special operation using a truck and the crusader countries know that no matter how much they enforce their security measures and procedures it will not stop the mujahideen from striking 188 189 Islamic and Christian responses Edit The first Islamic funeral ceremony of victims of the attack took place on 19 July in the Ar Rahma The Mercifulness mosque the oldest in Nice and the largest in Alpes Maritimes Last honours of the Islamic community were rendered to a 23 year old Tunisian woman her 4 year old child and a young man Rector and imam Otmane Aissaoui said in his sermon The sole frontier for which one should halt is this the respect for a man for a woman irrespective of their colour of skin their origin A truth one can find in the Gospel in the Torah even in Buddhism Citing a Quranic verse he said At the Last Judgment Lahouaiej Bouhlel will be asked why did you kill that little child of four years old 190 Also invited to speak was the priest of the nearby Catholic 191 church Saint Pierre d Ariane Father Patrick Bruzzone said My brothers I say my brothers because today more than ever when one man is hurt the whole of humanity is hurt 190 On 21 July a commemoration was held for people of all religions and even beyond that in Catholic church Saint Pierre d Arene located near the area where the attack had taken place The priest and the vicar called for the calming down necessary for taking at hand our common future in this torn city and in the whole country To contemplate together in order to solidly reconstruct the social ties that now are increasingly crumbled and largely ruined 190 On 24 September Pope Francis met 800 family members of the victims of the attack in Rome 192 Social media Edit Immediately after the attack while it still remained unclear whether the threat had ended people used social media particularly Twitter to help others find shelter using the hashtag PortesOuvertesNice Open Doors Nice a variation of a hashtag used in other recent attacks in France 193 On 14 and 15 July the French government urged social media users to only share reliable information from official sources while false rumours circulated that hostages had been taken that the Eiffel Tower had been attacked and set on fire and that Cannes had also been attacked 86 After effects Edit Memorial in Nice in September 2016 Memorial sign outside Musee Massena Nice Cultural Edit Organisers of the 20th Nice Jazz Festival scheduled to begin on 16 July cancelled the event in the wake of the attack 194 Rihanna cancelled a concert scheduled as a part of her Anti World Tour for 15 July at Nice s Allianz Riviera 195 At London s Royal Albert Hall on 15 July the opening night of the 2016 Proms Festival paid tribute to the people of Nice with the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing a rendition of La Marseillaise 196 In December 2016 an American musician faSade who witnessed the attack published a music video of a song that paid tribute to the victims featuring images of the attack s aftermath 197 In August the European Cycling Union decided to move the 2016 European Road Championships which were to be hosted on 14 18 September in Nice to Plumelec in the northwest of France due to security concerns in Nice after the 14 July attack 198 Financial markets Edit European stocks opened lower and then closed mixed on Friday 15 July the day after the attacks as investor sentiment was dampened by the attack in France The pan European STOXX 600 was down by 0 38 the French CAC 40 by 0 4 and German DAX by 0 4 The British FTSE 100 fell by 0 2 before closing up by 0 22 down at 0 32 in STOXX 600 0 6 in CAC 40 and 0 01 in DAX 199 Airlines along with other travel share were some of the hardest hit companies with Flybe and EasyJet down by around 3 7 per cent and three per cent respectively 200 Tourism Edit Cancellations and last minute changes to European holidays rose in the summer with travellers increasingly concerned about the threat of terrorism Other terrorist attacks in Belgium and Turkey prompted holidaymakers to cancel their bookings or seek out other destinations perceived to be safe The Nice attack along with the recent failed coup in Turkey were expected to add to the pressure This is not going to be a good year European Tour Operators Association chief executive Tom Jenkins said There is a real suppression of demand for destinations like Belgium and France 201 Tensions between Muslims and non Muslims Edit On the week after 14 July some Nice inhabitants noticed and deplored increasing anti Muslim and racist rhetoric in their quarters Some non Muslims said that their view on Muslims had changed We re in Europe and I think some of the oriental rites are somehow incompatible a local man said 202 Before the attack on 8 June the carcass of a pig had been found in front of a mosque in Nice Two suspected men were charged and the court s judgement was expected to be filed on 12 October On the morning of 11 October the imam of that same mosque found the head and pelt of a pig mounted before the mosque s entrance 203 Raids and house arrests under state of emergency Edit As of August 2016 under the state of emergency put in force since November 2015 and extended after the Nice attack 9 174 around 3 600 houses had been raided needs update The raids resulted in six terrorism related inquiries only one of which led to prosecution Most raids were reportedly connected with narcotics not with terrorism implying misuse of the new powers of emergency 204 Previously as of May 2016 under the emergency law house arrest had been imposed on 404 people mostly Muslims of North African descent Many French citizens that were placed under house arrest allegedly lost jobs or employment opportunities as a result 204 By mid November 2016 some people had been under house arrest for nearly a year during which no judicial inquiry against them had been started 205 On 15 November President Hollande announced his intention to prolong the state of emergency until the French presidential elections on 23 April and 7 May 2017 205 See also EditList of Islamist terrorist attacks List of massacres in France List of rampage killers religious political or ethnic crimes Notes Edit Including 2 dual Estonian Russian citizens Je ne suis pas Charlie Je suis content Ils ont ramene les soldats d Allah pour finir le travail a reference to the phrase Je suis Charlie Charge le camion met dedans 2 000 tonnes de fer et nique coupe lui les freins mon ami et moi je regarde infractions a la legislation sur les armes en relation avec une entreprise terroriste association de malfaiteurs en relation avec une entreprise terroriste criminelle Je suis tres en colere parce que j entends les 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Travel share prices plunge after Nice terror attack Express 15 July 2016 Terror attacks hit European summer travel Gulf News 21 July 2016 Nice la parole raciste se libere apres l attentat Nice racist speech liberates itself after the attack France Info in French 21 July 2016 Retrieved 19 November 2016 Nice une tete de sanglier de nouveau deposee devant la mosquee En Nour Nice again a pig s head deposited in front of mosque En Nour France Info 11 October 2016 Retrieved 19 November 2016 a b Kassem Ramzi 4 August 2016 France s real state of emergency The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 19 November 2016 a b Jean Marc Sauve L etat d urgence ne peut etre renouvele indefiniment Jean Marc Sauve The state of emergency cannot be renewed infinitely Le Monde 18 November 2016 Retrieved 19 November 2016 External links Edit Media related to 2016 Nice attack at Wikimedia Commons 2016 Nice attack at Wikinews Quotations related to 2016 Nice attack at Wikiquote Portal France Retrieved from https 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