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At Least 84 Dead After Truck Crashes Into Crowd In French City Of Nice

 

 

Local officials said dozens more were also injured in the attack.

 

• A truck plowed into a large crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France.

• At least 84 people were killed, French officials said.

• A local official said the truck was “loaded with arms and grenades.”

 

The attack on Bastille Day celebrants in the French city of Nice that killed at least 84 people was an act of terrorism, French President Francois Hollande said early Friday.

The driver who crashed his truck into a crowd of people watching fireworks continued on for over a mile before being shot dead by police, Agence-France Press reported. The truck was loaded with “arms and grenades,” Region President Christian Estrosi said.

Dozens were wounded in the attack, and 18 are in critical condition, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. An American father and his young son were among the first victims to be identified.

France will observe three national days of mourning beginning Saturday.

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French police forces and forensic officers stand next to a truck that ran into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day on Thursday in Nice, France.

Counterterrorism officials have taken over the investigation into the attack, HuffPost France reported. No group has claimed responsibility.

A police source told Reuters that the attacker was a 31-year-old French-Tunisian. 

Hollande, addressing the nation early Friday after a crisis meeting, said the carnage in Nice was “an attack whose terrorist character cannot be denied.”

“We need to do everything we can to fight against the threat of terrorism,” Hollande said. Recalling recent attacks in Paris and St. Denis, he said, “It’s all of France that’s under the threat of Islamist radicalism.”

The president said he would extend the state of emergency implemented after the November Paris attack for three months. Earlier on Thursday, just hours before the Nice attack occurred, he had indicated that the emergency measure would expire as planned in less than two weeks.

“We don’t yet know if [the driver] had accomplices, but we are hoping that his identification will offer us more leads,” Hollande said.

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An image from a video shows the large truck as it plows through a crowd a people in Nice, France.

Witnesses recounted a harrowing scene. “There was carnage on the road,” Nice resident Wassim Bouhlel told the AP. “Bodies everywhere.”

Crowds had gathered along the promenade to watch a fireworks display for the French holiday. A reporter from Agence France-Presse saw a white truck driving at high speed, hitting pedestrians and sending debris into the air. 

“All of the images we all saw from Paris, we are living them now here,” David Haziza, a Nice resident, told French TV station iTélé.

“My husband picked up the kids and started running,” Linda, another witness who did not provide a last name, told iTélé. “I turned around and just saw so many dead people. I even saw a baby with its head totally crushed.”

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Police officers stand near the truck that ran into dozens of people in Nice. Its windshield is riddled with bullets.

 

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Witness who barely escaped: Truck zig-zagged, aiming to kill as many as possible.Moved fast, tore down trees & postshttps://twitter.com/itele/status/753712322795798528 …

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Images posted on social media showed people running through the streets of the southern French city. Local newspaper Nice-Matin posted images of a white truck at the scene and said the vehicle was riddled with bullets. 

Police urged residents to stay indoors, and medical teams were on the scene, AFP said. 

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Les secours sont à pied d'oeuvre à Magnan #AttaquesNice

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U.S. President Barack Obama called the attack “horrific” and said that his administration is in touch with French officials and has offered to help with their investigation. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump offered their support to victims and solidarity with France.

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Statement by @POTUS on the Attack in Nice, France

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed solidarity with the people of France.

“Together with many others we stand side by side with in the fight against terrorism,” she said.

 

 

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Chllr #Merkel: "Together with many others we stand side by side with #France in the fight against terrorism.“ #Nice

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Social media users shared offers of help and shelter to people caught up in the mayhem, using the hashtag #PortesOuvertesNice. Some people took shelter in the lobby of a Nice hotel.

Facebook activated its safety check feature to enable people in Nice to assure friends they are safe. Concerned friends and relatives appealed for news about loved ones on Twitter using the hashtags #RechercheNice and  #RecherchesNice.

“France is horrified by what has just transpired ― this monstrosity of using a truck to deliberately kill dozens of people who were merely celebrating July 14th,” Hollande said in his address to the nation. “But France will always be stronger than the fanatics that attempt to bring it down.”

 

 

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[Batu69]

After truck attack in Nice, Google offers free calls to France and Facebook activates Safety Check.

 

Facebook is not the only way to keep in touch with loved ones, and a handful of companies have been quick to step up to the plate to offer free calls to France. AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are offering free US to France calls and texts until July 17, and Verizon has a similar offer running until July 16.

 

[dMog]

you do not kill a multi-heded  multi-armed monster by cutting off the fingers and toes when it attacks.... the world needs to spend more effort  going after the heads.

[Sylence]

precaution is everything, enabling security check on facebook (wut !?) after the incident doesn't do anything. 

 

Im just wondering how they even let a truck that big even get close to 1 mile radius of that event! in a country experienced 4 attacks in last 2 years! that's just Wow. poor innocent citizens 

[TheMountain]

"over 200 dead and injured"

 

Do you know something we aren't privy to?

 

 

[Sylence]

Just now, TheMountain said:

"over 200 dead and injured"

 

Do you know something we aren't privy to?

 

 

 

yup, watched Euronews Persian today morning

[flitox]

2 hours ago, dMog said:

you do not kill a multi-heded  multi-armed monster by cutting off the fingers and toes when it attacks.... the world needs to spend more effort  going after the heads.

but you also know you can remove one or two heads but by the time you reach #3, one & 2 have been replaced.

 

and with this kind of attack, you need no organization, cuz all you need is a rented truck.

 

and just as long as some people will think there is a paradise after death, you'll have idiots willing to behave like that because you'll have manipulators using man made but said to be god made books to control people.

[pc71520]

Open-Border & Multi-Cultural Policies have their price...

[DKT27]

Guys, just to make sure. Everyone is fine to post their comments, just do not get personal or too religious about those comments. The problem is anti-humanitarian forces not religion.

 

Our wishes and prayers for France and French people.

 

First thing indeed noticeable is how did it reach so near around the area. Who and what allowed it.

 

Also, am I the only one who thinks France, with all these terror strikes on them, should rather, I do not know, be silent on giving it back to these terrorists. What I'm saying here, get them as much as you want, infact, do it more, just do not advertise it.

[Sylence]

1 hour ago, flitox said:

but you also know you can remove one or two heads but by the time you reach #3, one & 2 have been replaced.

 

and with this kind of attack, you need no organization, cuz all you need is a rented truck.

 

and just as long as some people will think there is a paradise after death, you'll have idiots willing to behave like that because you'll have manipulators using man made but said to be god made books to control people.

 

it's not about religion so don't start a stupid subject. did you know many ISIS members are from France? 

it's about how to maintain security of innocent citizens which they failed 4 times in a row! I had friends close to me there too and fortunately they're safe. in the morning I heard Hollande start bullshitting people and say oh yess we increase our war on ISIS..heh yes really, go fight ISIS if u can or better say if u dare!

[Pequi]

7 hours ago, saeed_dc said:

The truck was loaded with arms

Makes no sense. Why would someone "drive into a crowd with a truck loaded with arms".

The logical thing to do would be to unload the arms (which must have cost a small fortune), then do his "terrorist" act.

Dunno, I take all news with a pinch of salt these days.

[TheMountain]

 

[Ballistic Gelatin]

1 hour ago, Pequi said:

Makes no sense. Why would someone "drive into a crowd with a truck loaded with arms".

The logical thing to do would be to unload the arms (which must have cost a small fortune), then do his "terrorist" act.

Dunno, I take all news with a pinch of salt these days.

At this point, we do not know what the terrorist's intentions or plans were after he exited The Promenade. It's possible he had another, larger-scale attack in mind afterwards or perhaps an intention to deliver the arms and explosives to another group or cell.

 

The French government possesses excellent investigative capabilities, so we should know more in the days ahead. Unfortunately, even the best intelligence apparatus cannot detect every possible threat. As for the terrorist being able to enter the restricted zone where large crowds were present, there apparently were insufficient or weak barriers in place to protect people from vehicles entering the zone. It was a weakness that was easily exploited. Unfortunately, it is just as easily remedied -- but only after so many have died and remain on life support in local hospitals.

[Sylence]

6 minutes ago, Ballistic Gelatin said:

At this point, we do not know what the terrorist's intentions or plans were after he exited The Promenade. It's possible he had another, larger-scale attack in mind afterwards or perhaps an intention to deliver the arms and explosives to another group or cell.

 

The French government possesses excellent investigative capabilities, so we should know more in the days ahead. Unfortunately, even the best intelligence apparatus cannot detect every possible threat. As for the terrorist being able to enter the restricted zone where large crowds were present, there apparently were insufficient or weak barriers in place to protect people from vehicles entering the zone. It was a weakness that was easily exploited. Unfortunately, it is just as easily remedied -- but only after so many have died and remain on life support in local hospitals.

 

I don't believe that. it hasn't been so long since they wanted to bomb 50 places in here with their explosives in June. excellent capabilities..please...more than 600 people died so far. f**k their capabilities. who's gonna answer for the lives of the dead?

 

 

[jeffeuh]

horror is just the word.

we are not afraid, we have no fear, we are not alone and we have to live because we are just, human, like them.

don't go down like they want, we can be more than this bad act.

[TheMountain]

"Newton’s first law states that, if a body is at rest or moving at a constant speed in a straight line, it will remain at rest or keep moving in a straight line at constant speed unless it is acted upon by a force. This postulate is known as the law of inertia. The law of inertia was first formulated by Galileo Galilei for horizontal motion on Earth and was later generalized by René Descartes. Before Galileo it had been thought that all horizontal motion required a direct cause, but Galileo deduced from his experiments that a body in motion would remain in motion unless a force (such as friction) caused it to come to rest."

 

https://www.britannica.com/science/Newtons-laws-of-motion

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[TheMountain]

Humanity for many eons is more than willing to sacrifice freedom of will for the comfort idealogy brings.

 

Bow down to no one; be it a imaginary thing in the sky above, or flesh & blood on Mother Earth below.

[SnakeMasteR]

There is no 100% security. You can't control everything, that's why authorities maintain safe zones.

What outside of it? See...

@DKT27

IS uses it's own or affiliated propaganda channels, aside from what western media reports or not, there isn't much room to hide the obvious. If western media doesn't report, IS does. And it's not less bragging.

[DKT27]

18 minutes ago, n0_risk! said:

@DKT27

 

IS uses it's own or affiliated propaganda channels, aside from what western media reports or not, there isn't much room to hide the obvious. If western media doesn't report, IS does. And it's not less bragging.

 

That's a good point. But there is a lot of boasting that could be avoided. France, by advertising their fightback, is making these terrorists feel that they need to do it even more and making them feel France is the oppressor and two, is making the terrorists zero in on France - making it one of their main enemy, atleast for the time being. Yes, I agree, terror strikes can happen anywhere, it's just that France has become an easy target for many reasons.

 

As for mainstream media, while it does not have that much of an effect as other sources, in the liberal world, they are either creating a sense of concern, or hatred, for the both sides.

 

I for one feel all this is making sure that not only humans are being lost, but humanity as a whole is being effected too.

[kasper]

not sure if this fool was connected to Daes
apparently it was a sick man psichicky
World's weapons be impossible as it would in te insanity stop? This is not normal, this is Islam and radical Islam Sillen

when it comes to the world that need a ground operation against Daes

[Sylence]

2 hours ago, DKT27 said:

 

That's a good point. But there is a lot of boasting that could be avoided. France, by advertising their fightback, is making these terrorists feel that they need to do it even more and making them feel France is the oppressor and two, is making the terrorists zero in on France - making it one of their main enemy, atleast for the time being. Yes, I agree, terror strikes can happen anywhere, it's just that France has become an easy target for many reasons.

 

As for mainstream media, while it does not have that much of an effect as other sources, in the liberal world, they are either creating a sense of concern, or hatred, for the both sides.

 

I for one feel all this is making sure that not only humans are being lost, but humanity as a whole is being effected too.

 

France always offered shelter and welcomed terrorists. mojahedin khalq after they got away from Iraq went straight to France! this terrorist group and its leaders are right now in France. killed thousands of people. still surprised why France is the target? you should be surprised if it wasn't the target. it's clearly an act of "state sponsoring of terrorism"

 

same as Turkey, the evidence presented by many countries such as Russia indicate that the government and his families have deep ties with ISIS. and that's what they get every other month in one of their airports.

everything has a price.

[Pequi]

On sexta-feira, 15 de julho de 2016 at 4:38 PM, Ballistic Gelatin said:

At this point, we do not know what the terrorist's intentions or plans were after he exited The Promenade. It's possible he had another, larger-scale attack in mind afterwards or perhaps an intention to deliver the arms and explosives to another group or cell.

He must have been a moron then.

 

I would have "delivered the arms and explosives" BEFORE going on the suicide mission, or did he really think he could outrun the police with all the manpower and technology they have, IF he wasn't slaughtered by the mob if the truck crashed on the scene ?

I certainly would have got some kicks in, if I was there. 100 people kicking, and he would be very dead. People don't think rationally in a situation like this, they become animals.

 

Sorry, but there's something very strange about the whole story. There's a lot of hatred, but not much logic in some of the replies

 

[Jordan]

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[SnakeMasteR]

Not sure, could it be that the driver thought he's playing some GTA V on PS4? Maybe he had some weird hallucinations and woke up after getting shot. ?