Still open questions, a year after the attack in nice

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France recalls on this year’s national day also to the victims of the attack in nice. In July 2016, a Terrorist with a truck in the partying crowd of racing was there. The witnesses are still suffering.

There is this year, no festive fireworks on the beach promenade, as it is at the national holiday Tradition. With a worship service, a memorial event with President Emmanuel Macron and an evening concert, the programme of sorrow and consternation to not only the bereaved, but also for the citizens of the city.

A year ago, the Tunisia-born, resident in France, Mohamed was Lahouaiej-Bouhlel with a truck on the Boulevard des Anglais in the partying crowd racing.

The attack lasted only a few minutes and left 86 people, including many children. The motive for the Madness was not really clarified. And relatives as survivors make the previous government in Paris for a failure of the safety measures is responsible.

Recently, a large heart next to the seafront promenade reminiscent of the stroke victims nice

The Victim

Most of the more than 400 injured from nice are now recover again, if some permanent damage. Between ten and twenty patients to be treated, said Professor Pascal Boileau explained by the local University hospital, compared to the French press.

However, around 3000 members and witnesses of the terror attack is still in psychiatric treatment. Among them are many children, the process the shock of the event slowly. Survivors report sleep disorders and panic attacks. For many, the anniversary is the first opportunity to return to the Boulevard des Anglais, at the memory.

Some, however, have rejected the invitation of the President, such as Sophia Seco of representing the Victims FENVAC explains: “In the last few weeks we have had with Victims in contact, to the memorial celebration on the 14. July prepare. We have spoken to the 70, but the three find it helpful to meet with the President”.

Security posts to protect the Boulevard in the future

Slow Compensation

Trouble there is how to other terrorist attacks in France because of the slow compensation of victims by the state. So far, only 25 of the promised 300 million euros were distributed.

After the submission of the application, there is an advance payment of between 2500 and 5000 euros, so Sophia Seco, explains: “Before the compensation is paid fully, you must be the person healthy again or at least healed”. Only then can the Severity of the duration, could be found to damage and the final amount to be determined.

“Some are glad that they get any money at all, but others find it to be much too little. The price for a car can’t compensate the life of a daughter,” says the consultant. Meanwhile, the cooperation with the government is not working, better if also the point of contact for the victim for many difficult to reach to the edge of town was relocated. And many are still waiting for answer, whether or not the stop with better safety measures could have been avoided or not. The judiciary and the police of nice, this is a question to investigate.

Police secures the grandstand for the ceremonies this year

The Report On The Investigation

The French safety authorities have produced, however, in the meantime, a huge mountain of Files. The investigation report on the attack covers 80,000 pages, the reports of the criminalistic Research, hundreds of witness statements and the evaluation of Laptop and mobile phone of the offender.

Not a reference to the fact that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had been in any contact with IS – command structures in Syria or Iraq have been found. Even though the terrorist group, confessed after the fact to the attack.

The culprit was a case of “self-radicalization”, to the conclusion the authorities. Although Lahouaiej-Bouhlel showed an interest in radical Islamist theses, but a connection to the organization of the IS seemed to have it. And because such contacts were not visible, he had not attracted the attention of the security authorities.

Even after a year no further insights exist at the Background of the fact. The research to find more accurate motifs running into the Void, except that the offender is a General inclination to terrorism have shown. His murderous attack was but the first in Europe, with a vehicle. It is exactly what the former IS spokesman Mohammed al-Adnani had encouraged his followers already 2014.

Tourist destination, in the meantime, sad celebrity: the beach promenade of nice

Against nine Suspects are currently under investigation because of possible complicity. It local contacts of Lahouaiej are Bouhlel, where offences such as the procurement of a shot to be accused of weapon. However, it is about criminal offences without a terrorist Background.

The Offender

Only last week, the corpse of the perpetrator of the French court and was released medicine, and to Tunis for the funeral has been transferred. An explanation for the mysterious delay, the French authorities gave up.

Anyway, is this a rumor from the recent election campaign, according to which the offender had been buried in a cemetery in nice, in the vicinity of his victims. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was on 14. July 2017 in a hail of police died, was able to finish his destruction, ride through the celebrating crowd on the beach Boulevard of nice.