Saturday, July 16, 2016

Bombing in Nice: what we know two days later – The World

Nice, July 16, 2016. Around the Promenade  des Anglais. The walk just reopened.

the promenade des Anglais, theater drama, reopened gradually passers Saturday in a grieving city where 131 people – including 30 children – remain hospitalized in Nice. Twenty-six are in intensive care

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  • the EI claims responsibility

“soldier” Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel led the operation in response to calls to target nationals from coalition countries. ” This is how the Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday, in a statement broadcast on its Al-Bayan radio.

This claim comes as the first elements on the life of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel left guessing about a possible jihadist radicalization

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According to Bernard Cazeneuve, the delivery driver “appears to have radicalized very quickly.” This is “an attack of a new type” committed by “individuals sensitive to the message of Daech (the Arabic acronym of IE) who engage in extremely violent action without necessarily having participated in the fighting, without necessarily having been trained “, the minister said.

Asked about the viability of the claim of the attack, journalist David Thomson, a specialist in jihadism, said that “so far, the Islamic State has never claimed opportunistically while could have done it again. “

” There are certainly links and they claim, that means they have evidence of these links and they go “feuilletonner.” for example, to the crash of Russian flight into Egypt, they broadcast the picture of the can of explosives they had slipped in the hold while Egyptian authorities refused to admit their involvement, is now proved. “

Five people of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel entourage were placed in police custody since Friday morning. His wife will be heard further 24 hours, police custody having been extended Saturday afternoon. According to information from the World of the hearings from the information regarding the radicalization of the bomber.

Investigators undertaken since Thursday a major labor telephony and IT operations that could also illuminate the springs of acting out of the truck driver. According to information from the World , some names “interesting” have emerged among its contacts. Another source suggests common relations with Omar Diaby, a figure of jihadism Nice to al Nosra, not IE

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as for how the truck was able to penetrate on the promenade des Anglais, yet closed to traffic, Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday that “police vehicles made impossible crossing the promenade des Anglais; it is by the curb and very violent manner that the truck may have committed the crime “

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  • Sixteen bodies yet to be identified

Of the 84 victims, six do not yet have a name, the work of identification still ongoing according to the spokesperson of the Fondation Lenval, Nice children’s hospital which hosted 30 children on the evening of drama.

the health ministry said on Saturday afternoon that a total of 303 people were supported in the Nice health facilities and surroundings since the attack, including one hundred who presented since Friday afternoon. Saturday night, 131 people remained hospitalized, including 30 children. Twenty-six people are still in intensive care, including five children.

The first compensation for victims will be paid “from the end of next week” has promised Juliette Méadel Secretary of State for victim assistance

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  • Cazeneuve called volunteers to join the operational reserve

In the late afternoon, Bernard Cazeneuve and Jean-Yves Le Drian , interior ministers and defense have made a joint statement in which they detailed the particular military missions will continue to be deployed as part of operation Sentinel. These will be dedicated in particular “border controls and sécuritsation major festive and cultural events” said Mr. Cazeneuve.

He also appealed to “all French patriots who want” to join the “operational reserve”, whose mobilization was announced on Thursday by François Hollande to “relieve the staff of police and gendarmes” after the attack of Nice. This reserve consists of volunteer citizens, with or without military experience, aged 17 years. They sign a contract paid (with a balance under the same conditions as professional soldiers) to a few dozen days a year

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