Truck grid in the crowd: More than 70 Dead in attack in nice

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Truck grid in the crowd: More than 70 Dead in attack in nice

In the French nice, is the car on the national holiday of a load by a crowd of people raced. There are more than 70 Dead. President Francois Hollande returned to Paris to a meeting of the crisis staff.

France has been hit on its national day once again a heavy stroke: In the South of France, nice attacker killed according to official figures, at least 77 people when he raced a truck through a crowd of people. At least 16 of the injured are in extremely critical condition.

According to prosecutors ripped the trucks on a stretch of two kilometres of people. The attacker was shot and killed. AFP photos showed the truck with a shot through the windshield. Also, the tires of the vehicle had been shot. Media reported, in a load of weapons and grenades had been found in the car. The background to the fact were initially unclear.

Injured on the site of the attack

The alleged attack occurred at about 23 o’clock, shortly after the fireworks of the national holiday, numerous people on the street flowed. An AFP Reporter was on the famous Promenade des Anglais, to the eye-witnesses. A white truck sped off with great speed in the crowd, he said. “We saw how people were taken and how the objects flew around,” he said. People are taken in panic flight. “It was absolute Chaos.” On the waterfront, many lay Dead after the attack lined up, covered by white cloths.

Rescue workers and police arrive at the scene of the crime

Emergency crews are at the scene. The center for victim support in the Ministry of foreign Affairs established an emergency number for relatives. The Paris Anti-terrorist Prosecutor’s office moved immediately to the investigation of the attack. Is determined for terrorist murders and the formation of a terrorist organisation, as the authority announced. Information on the Person of the offender, and possible motives were not initially made.

The President of the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’azur, Christian Estrosi, called on the inhabitants to leave their homes. The Federal Foreign office in Berlin advised, urgently, to comply with the instructions of the French security forces and to keep the situation development and the media informed.

The area was spaciously. Officials in civilian clothes with machine guns lit up in cars, said Journalist and Blogger Richard Gutjahr. Gutjahr was a witness to the fact, by Thursday evening. The whole area was cordoned off. On the sea, circled the police boats. A helicopter with a spotlight was in the air. The dead and injured had been removed.

President Francois Hollande broke off a visit to the city of Avignon and travelled directly to the crisis centre at the Élysée Palace. For Friday morning the head of state convened the security Cabinet. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve went to the scene of the crime.

Security forces, on the Promenade des Anglais

The celebrations of the national holiday in France took place under increased security measures. Alone in the capital, Paris 11,500 police officers were deployed to prevent attacks and riots.

Survivors comfort each other

In France, the attacks of 13 for the Islamist. November the state of emergency. Bombers were killed in attacks on the football stadium, Stade de France, the Paris music club Bataclan, and a number of Bars and Restaurants 130 people. The most serious attack in the history of France, the jihadists militia “Islamic state” (IS) known.

President Hollande had announced on Thursday that since the attacks of January 2015 in force a state of emergency in the country on the 26. To extend July. You could not get this measure last forever, he said in a television interview. The state of emergency had previously been extended several times.

stu/gri (dpa, afp, rtr)