Nice (AFP) – A seemingly recent rapid radicalization: the profile of the perpetrator of the attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, which has 84 dead July 14 in Nice, has said Saturday while the government confirmed a strengthening of “the presence of the security forces.”
in the evening, the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve appealed “to all French patriots who wish “to join the” operational reserve “.
the prefects can tap into a pool of 12,000 volunteers (9,000 of the national gendarmerie, 3,000 police), to support members of the security forces” sought on all fronts for many months, “he said about the use of this reserve, announced Friday by President Francois Hollande.
Hit by a mass murder for the third time in 18 months with an overall record of 231 deaths, France began Saturday a national mourning three days, culminating with a minute of silence at noon on Monday. That’s when the Promenade des Anglais, partially reopened on Saturday, will be completely.
“It seems” that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Tunisia’s 31-year delivery driver who drove the wheel of a heavy weight on the crowd who attended the fireworks of the national Day on the Promenade des Anglais, will be “radicalized very quickly,” said Bernard Cazeneuve.
the Minister of the Interior spoke of “an attack of a new type”, without heavy weapons or explosives, which “shows the extreme difficulty of combating terrorism”.
Five people from the entourage of the author of the slaughter – his ex-wife and four men – are still in custody
the hearings suggest a tipping “recent” to “radical Islam”, according to police sources, without the organization. Islamic State (EI) is, at this stage, mentioned.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was not subject to any radicalization alert but was known to justice for acts of common crime.
– “permanent calls to murder” –
the killer “is a soldier of the Islamic State” who acted “in response to calls for the targeting of nationals coalition countries fighting the EI “, said Saturday QAMA agency. Linked to the jihadist group that had already claimed the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015, the deadliest ever committed in France, with 130 deaths.
If this claim seems “vague”, experts interviewed by AFP point out that EI has never hitherto attributed the attacks in an “opportunistic”.
the Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, the head of terrorism prosecutor seized of investigation, had noted on Friday that the attack corresponded “exactly permanent incitement to murder” jihadist groups, chief among them the IE.
Father of divorcing, Lahouaiej- Bouhlel had a depression in the early 2000s and had no connection with religion, told AFP his father in Tunisia. It is also described by neighbors Nice displayed as having no religious practice, taciturn, violent, especially towards his ex-wife
-. Strong criticism from the opposition –
“We have not finished” with “terrorism”, François Hollande warned Friday announcing an extension for three-month state of emergency, introduced after November 13 and that ended July 26 .
Saturday, following a ministerial meeting at the Elysee, he called for “cohesion” and “unity” national, while seeming concord followed the jihadist attacks between January and November 2015 fizzled.
“I want to know what was taken as a measure in war, a state of emergency, so that we do not kill not with that weapon in a major city of France, “and Saturday asked Christian Estrosi, President of the Republicans Paca region, echoing criticism from several opposition figures.
the President FN Marine Le Pen, for his part denounced the “very serious shortcomings of the State” in the “protection of our compatriots.” Former President Nicolas Sarkozy himself has felt that the time will come “soon” to “say things”, and especially “do”.
For these critics, Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday that “national police were present and very present” in Nice
-. “Stop the killing” –
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot by police after a race killing two kilometers on the Promenade des Anglais – piétonisée to allow 30,000 people to attend the fireworks. – after forcing the barrage of police
the investigators found on board refrigeration truck 19 tons, he had hired Monday, a gun with which he shot at police officers, as well as replica firearms.
Ten children and adolescents are among the dead, and several foreigners, including three Germans, four Tunisians and two Americans.
the toll could still rise, because 121 of the 300 injured remained hospitalized Saturday, including 26 in intensive care, according to the Ministry of Health.
on the Promenade des Anglais, bystanders came again Saturday deposited bouquets of flowers and messages, in which pierce the pain and anger. Among the candles and condolences, reads: “Enough talk!”, “Enough of bloodshed in our streets!”, “Stop the killing!”
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