Sunday, July 17, 2016

Nice attack: the answers to your questions – The World

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In the old town, on 15 July.

many questions were posed to World in our monitoring Nice attack that left 84 dead Thursday, July 14. Here are the answers we can give to the main questions of our readers. It should be kept in mind that the investigation is still ongoing and that the situation can change quickly.



1. Why are we talking about a terrorist “radicalized very quickly”?

The profile of the terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, killed by the security forces after the attack, remains cloudy for now. The various information available about her draw a picture of a man with troubles motivations.

Tunisian 31 years, divorcing and father of three, is described by his neighbors as a unstable man, violent and who had not “all there” . He was known for acts of threats, violence, theft and damage committed from 2010 to 2016 and was sentenced in March 2016 to six months suspended sentence for voluntary violence with weapon facts committed in January. He was not, however, be identified by the intelligence services before the attack. He is also portrayed as somewhat religious – it would neither prayer nor Ramadan

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for the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, this individual “appears to have radicalized very quickly.” He spoke of “an attack of a new type “perpetrated by ” individuals sensitive to the message of Daech [Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group] who engage in extremely violent action without necessarily having been trained “.

According to information from the World , the Minister of the interior is based in particular on the guards to current view in the case. The work of the investigators from Thursday, July 14 has also identified “interesting” names in the contact Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel

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2. The Islamic State he recovered the attack, or he has prepared?

The organization designated jihadist Mohamed Saturday, July 16 Lahouaiej Bouhlel as a soldier who “conducted the operation in response to calls to aim for nationals of countries of the coalition that fights EI” , in a message broadcast on its Al-Bayan radio. The terrorist profile nevertheless differs from those of jihadists responsible for previous attacks in France. It was not the subject of a record S intelligence and never visited Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan or Pakistan in recent years.

Read also: is there a “profile” of French jihadists?

The links between the terrorist organization and Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel remain unproven and are not necessarily close. Asked by Le Monde Saturday, the journalist David Thomson, a specialist in jihadist movement, however, noted that “so far, the Islamic State has never claimed anything opportunistically” . And to clarify:

“If they claim, it means they have evidence of these links and they will” feuilletonner “. For example, to the crash of Russian flight into Egypt, they broadcast the picture of the can of explosives they had slipped into the hold, while the Egyptian authorities refused to admit their involvement, now proven . “

From the elements known at present, Sunday, July 17 in the morning, one can simply say that the bombing of Nice was not necessarily coordinated or assisted by the Islamic State group. It is not known whether he had knowledge of the killing of the project before July 14. But there could have contact between one or more of its members and Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel

Read also:. Attack of Nice: what we know, two days after

3. How did he truck could enter the Promenade des Anglais?

According to the evidence provided late Friday afternoon by the prosecutor of Paris, Francois Molins, Mohamed Lahouaiej is Bouhlel mounted at 21 h 34, the Auriol area in the truck he had rented three days earlier. He then appeared at 22 h 30 in the neighborhood Magnan, before taking the direction of the waterfront, where it has led to 22 h 45.

He began to ascend the Promenade des Anglais, on the part left free circulation in 14 July. But already he bites on the sidewalk to start hitting people. Then he reached the point of the barrier at the intersection with the Boulevard Gambetta. The one that stands across his fatal expedition. “There is no fifty checkpoints, confirmed a police union in the region. There is just a place where the traffic is blocked and it is not even a checkpoint. The police put a barrier and smashed it all. “

Read also: How did the killer have traveled 2 km driving his truck?

Here it is then introduced to the part of the Promenade des Anglais traditionally devoted to pedestrians on the day of the national holiday. This extends to the port city. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel will transform this space into scene of massacre. He mows his victims about 1 700 meters before the first exchange of fire with security forces near the Negresco hotel. It ends up about 300 meters further up another Nice hotel, the Palace of the Mediterranean, about 23 hours. This is where the terrorist was shot in the cabin by the police.



4. Why bullet holes were they concentrated on the left side of the heavy windscreen weight?

The Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, said “The terrorist was found dead on the passenger seat “. What seems to confirm images of the scene filmed by an Egyptian tourist. Which is why, to the surprise of some users, the majority of bullet holes are located on the left side of the truck.



The impacts on the front glass of the truck  are mainly at the level of the passenger seat.

5. What kind of car was it?

According to the Paris prosecutor, the terrorist hit on a “19 tons refrigerated vehicle rented on 11 July in a society rental Saint-Laurent-du-Var “ and that should have been returned the day before the attack.

6. Was there any news of the motorcyclist who tried to stop the truck?

Several witnesses, including the German journalist Richard Gutjahr, told a motorcyclist attempted to stop the vehicle running. “the motorcyclist attempted to overtake and even tried to open the driver’s door of the truck,” , told the journalist told AFP. The man then dropped, as shown footage shot by amateur.

Sunday, July 17, we still do not know what was the fate of this rider. No information about his condition has also been provided.



7. Do we know how many attacks were thwarted recently in France?

“Fifteen projects were avoided bombing during last three years’ , said Manuel Valls July 15th on France 2. He has insisted on the arrest of Reda Kriket 30 March 2016 which allowed, he said, to avoid “a particularly deadly attack” .

in March, Bernard Cazeneuve evoked “eleven bombing projects [which] were foiled six since January 2015″ . A list completed by the planned attack Reda Kriket and avoided by bombings during Euro 2016, according to the interior minister.



8. Who is Mohamed Bouhlel presented as living in Tunisia?

His name is Mohamed Bouhlel but is not the terrorist Nice. This Nice and Tunisian was confused by some users and media with the killer, because a simple homonyms, and received death threats on social networks and websites close to the extreme right have aired his portrait presenting it as “the author of carnage” .

“the mishap, to say the little, is so violent to me that I dare not go to Nice. Indeed, I am currently in Tunisia for the summer holidays and my return ticket was scheduled for July 15, “ testified the victim of this violent misunderstanding of The Obs .

Some sites tend to conspiracy even believed see, wrongly, a sign that the terrorist responsible for the killings could not be called Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, which still has some more confused

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9. The killer was there any weapons in the truck? What was in the truck?

According to Francois Molins, in the refrigerated truck, which had been leased July 11 and should be returned on July 13, were found a 7.65 caliber pistol, charger, PERCUTEES not PERCUTEES cartridges, a dummy gun, two replicas of assault rifles, a dummy grenade pierced, and credit card, a cell phone, a bicycle and eight empty pallets .

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