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Mourning and an investigation in nice
On the Cote d’azur deep mourning. The question of what to kill the bomber drive, 84 people, is unanswered. It was terrorism, “according to the pattern of the IS,” said the Prosecutor. Bernd Riegert from nice.
The blue shutters are shut tight. The yellow facade of the apartment building lit up in the sun. Camera crews besieged the building in the North of nice. Here is the assassin who wiped out all life with a brutal Truck ride on Thursday evening at the beach promenade, 84 people lived, including that of ten children. 202 wounded are treated. Approximately 50 living in danger.
Only a few neighbors in the yellow house, the assassin Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. Those who talk about him, describe him as a difficult, uncommunicative, unfriendly. The 31-year-old Tunisian had a long-term residence permit for France. He should have worked as a delivery driver. The police, by his wife, separated husband was known. He had repeatedly turned grift and was sentenced to only in the spring due to injury, a new prison sentence that was suspended. He was a typical petty criminal, said his former criminal defense attorney is a French TV channel.
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The day after the attack – Max Hofmann reported (15.07.2016)
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The day after the attack – Max Hofmann reported (15.07.2016)
“It was terrorism”
At least outwardly, he was not recognize as a radical Islamist, my neighbors and a cousin in Interviews. He went to the gym and to Dance. The investigating authorities could see no direct connection between Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel and a terrorist organization like the “Islamic state” (IS). The investigating Prosecutor in nice said in the afternoon. Nevertheless, the man who has acted according to our present knowledge, alone, is classified as a Terrorist.
In the white rental truck, with which he carried out the massacre, have been found several weapons. Whether they were used is still unclear. “His behavior and their Commission are consistent with the previously known Patterns of terrorists”, said the French Prosecutor General, Francois Molins, Paris. “The attack bore all the characteristics of a jihadist.” In addition, the “Islamic state had called” his followers to acts of murder with vehicles.
The police and the state attorney will seek the specific motive of the offender, the secret services unknown
“The enemy continues to attack”
The investigations are going on Saturday. The police examined the mobile phone and the Computer of the offender, to find clues to a motive for the act. It was clear that the man had planned his murder travel accurately. The vehicle had already been three days before the fact, rented. The date of the fact, was no coincidence. With the assassination of the French national day of the Tunisian bombers have attacked the French Republic, the Minister of the interior Bernard Cazeneuve.
President Francois Hollande visited, investigators, Doctors, and relatives of the Victims in nice. He had previously vowed to his countrymen to “a long struggle against the enemy”. “We have to do it with an enemy, who will continue his attacks on the free peoples. We want to destroy him and, therefore, must be vigilant.”
Vigil for victims of #nice attacks on the promenade where a truck driver killed 84 people @dwnews pic.twitter.com/93CrcYmrud
— Bernd Riegert (@Riegert, Bernd) 15. July 2016
Mourning for the victims
Many people also took until late in the night on little vigils on the promenade, part, doubt, however, that the state can protect them from such terrorist acts of individuals. “We must not give up yet,” said a man who lit a red grave candle and introduced it to a number of other candles.
In the evening, groups of people, always singing spontaneously combative national anthem of France, the Marseillaise, which tells of marching soldiers. Hundreds of people participated in the Cathedral of nice in a funeral service, including the Head of the “National Front”, Marine Le Pen. The right-populist, opposed to immigration, here in the South of France relatively many followers.
Survivors struggle with the death
In the night the Doctors and nurses who fought in the children’s hospital of nice, next to the lives of severely injured and severely traumatized children. “We have about 30 children in very serious condition here. Two are unfortunately already deceased,” said in the evening, Stephanie Simpson, from the children’s hospital.
The French authorities identify more and more of the 84 previously known death toll. Two German are among them. Three Tunisians, two Swiss, two Chinese, two Americans and many other nationalities are among the dead. Some friends and relatives are still searching for missing persons. A hospital is looking for the parents of an injured child.
Consolation in the Faith: mourning mass in the Cathedral of nice
Trauma to to reduce
Many people were on Thursday evening, witnesses of the assassination, and perhaps just barely survived, came back on Friday, once again, to the place of terror. In tears, Alexandre reported, for example, of his experiences. “I went through a field with corpses. Because children were.”
The track, which could set back the offender with the truck on the Promenade, is almost two kilometers. Now also looks at why the police was not possible for the driver to stop earlier due to targeted shots. The car with the bullet-riddled windscreen has now been removed. The beach promenade, a main artery of the tourist town of nice, to be opened on Saturday.
The psychologist Bernard Muscole told the French news channel BFMTV, it is important that Survivors and eye-witnesses, with experiences and Fears. “The Grieving and the emotional Cutting can help a long-term trauma.”