A truck is raging in Nice at the celebration of the French national holiday into a crowd and killed several dozen people. According to French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve least 80 people were killed. 18 people have been very seriously injured, Cazeneuve said on Friday morning in Nice.
After words of French President François Hollande, the fact is clearly a terrorist background. The “terrorist” nature of the attack can not be denied, the president said in the night to Friday in a televised speech. “The whole of France is threatened by Islamist terrorism.” Hollande presented also in view, the fight against Dschihadistenmiliz “Islamic State” (IS) in Iraq and Syria to intensify. Reservists will also strengthen the security forces in the country.
In the morning Hollande has convened the security cabinet. In the region around Nice terror alert has been declared. The anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office has taken over the investigation. According to Hollande, there is no evidence of complicity.
The truck was two kilometers raced through the crowd on the famous Promenade des Anglais quayside. The people had gathered there to celebrate Bastille Day. The driver has been finally shot.
In an interview with the television station BMFTV the President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Christian Estrosi said the assassin had fired on the crowd. been an eyewitness told the station, the attackers had also exchanged fire with the police According geliefert.Den authorities have been found in the truck firearms and grenades
According to media reports the identity papers of a Franco-Tunisian are Tatfahrzeug found , The papers would a 31-year-old declared in Nice man belong. These reports have not yet been officially confirmed.
Ambulance bring many injured in the hospitals
The competent Prefectural Authority called on the population to stay at home. Many rescue teams were deployed in the evening. The Foreign Office in Berlin strongly advised to follow the instructions of the French security forces follow and to keep informed on the situation developing on the media.
After the attack there is fear and uncertainty.
An eyewitness told the station “France Info”, she fled with other anxiously: “The truck came zigzagging along the road we ran into a hotel and hid with many other people on the toilet. . ” Another woman told the station that she had been hiding with about 200 others in a restaurant on the promenade.
France had committed the holiday under increased security measures. For the traditional military parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris about 11,500 security forces were mobilized.
At the National each year of the storming of the Paris Bastille Prison is thought July 14, 1789, as the beginning of the French Revolution applies.
France was repeated target of attacks. When Islamist attacks in the past year 149 people had died, including 130 at the Paris Terror series on 13 November 2015. During the recently concluded football championship had a man who confessed to terrorist militia Islamic State (IS), near Paris a policemen and its partner killed. The tournament was held under tight security instead.
President Hollande announced plans to extend the state of emergency again. He had previously announced that it would no longer actually extend the ban since November 2015 state of emergency in July 26 also. One can not maintain forever the measure, he said in a television interview. The state of emergency had been extended several times.
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