80 dead, many injured in Nice, France after truck drives into crowd; gunfire

[MikeWB]

People could be seen running in panic after a truck crashed into the crowd on Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. Many people have been reportedly injured. There also have been unconfirmed reports of gunfire.

"There are people in blood, probably full of wounded," a reporter for the Nice Matin newspaper said.

    I'm in #nice and cannot describe the situation- scary awful. Dead bodies everywhere people killed in front of my eyes. Had to b planned
    — Certified Tax Coach (@CertTaxCoach) July 14, 2016

Witnesses reported that the truck that drove into the crowd was watching the fireworks celebration of Bastille Day.  Photos emerged on social media showing injured people lying on the ground en masse.

    Le camion qui a foncé sur la foule pic.twitter.com/h4QuBabJMx
    — Nice-Matin (@Nice_Matin) July 14, 2016

    #attentat l horreur à Nice pic.twitter.com/uOCcHBBVc1
    — MLCECO (@MLCeco) July 14, 2016

    Mouvement de panique !! #Nicepic.twitter.com/RgXar3fWZs
    — HARP DETECTIVES (@harp_detectives) July 14, 2016

    jss dans nice y'a des mouvements de foule de mutant on sait pas pk pic.twitter.com/ByXnaig0Qk
    — yannick (@yvnnick) July 14, 2016

    Der Moment, wenn sich vor deinen Augen ein Terroranschlag ereignet. Und nein, jetzt kein Periscope-Livestream #Nizzapic.twitter.com/xBtjEeXcYh
    — Richard Gutjahr (@gutjahr) July 14, 2016

https://www.rt.com/news/351086-panic-nice-france-crowd/

[MikeWB]

more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3691019/Several-people-injured-truck-crashes-crowd-Bastille-Day-celebrations-Nice.html

BREAKING NEWS: At least 50 feared dead and shots fired as lorry RAMS into crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice leaving bodies strewn across the road in suspected Terror attack

    * At least 50 people are feared dead and 150 have been injured in a Bastille Day attack in Nice, southern France
    * Eyewitnesses reported a gunfight between police responding to the attack and suspects at the scene
    * Gunmen are believed to have taken hostages in a hotel and a restaurant in the city 

[MikeWB]

Street full of dead people:

(EXTREMELY GRAPHIC! DO NOT WATCH IF IT BOTHERS YOU!)

https://twitter.com/NewsThisSecond/status/753708818119397377

[rmstock]

Ce'st le attentat hypocrite .
If you go to the Court House of NICE (hey fellers NICE is the name of
the town, what happened is certainly NOT NICE) or the US Consulate you
will find that it's impossible to drive with your Camion into the Court 
House or Consulate, because they placed concrete roadblock stones. If
there's a public party happening placing such roadblock stones could
prevent a lot of nasty stuff.

[MikeWB]

You gotta wonder how French cope with this shit. They can't even go outside without worrying about someone killing them in a mass terrorist attack. Insane.

[rmstock]

You gotta wonder how French cope with this shit. They can't even go outside without worrying about someone killing them in a mass terrorist attack. Insane.

I think it's an attack on the Tour de France. Many folks
then go on vacation in the south of France. Yesterday was
the ride to Mont Ventoux where Froome nearly lost
his yellow jersey. A lot of Le Tour tourists then spend
some time in a place like NICE or Monte Carlo.

[yankeedoodle]

You gotta wonder how French cope with this shit. They can't even go outside without worrying about someone killing them in a mass terrorist attack. Insane.

Of course, this type of thing has been going on in Yankee Doodle Land for decades - since at least the Texas tower massacre in the late 60's or early 70's - it just  wasn't called terrorism, but spreading terror was the intent of the perpetrator, and, if you were to go back to media accounts, surely the word terror would have been found.

There's NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE. 

[MikeWB]

You gotta wonder how French cope with this shit. They can't even go outside without worrying about someone killing them in a mass terrorist attack. Insane.

Of course, this type of thing has been going on in Yankee Doodle Land for decades - since at least the Texas tower massacre in the late 60's or early 70's - it just  wasn't called terrorism, but spreading terror was the intent of the perpetrator, and, if you were to go back to media accounts, surely the word terror would have been found.

There's NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE.

When's the last time one person killed 70+ civilians in Texas?

[MikeWB]

France vows to retaliate for Nice attack, extends state of emergency Live updates
Published time: 14 Jul, 2016 21:44Edited time: 15 Jul, 2016 02:09

Scores of people have been killed and dozens more injured after a truck plowed through a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, in what has been called "the worst attack" in the city's history. A truck driver has been killed by police.

READ MORE: Dozens reported dead as truck plows into crowd in Nice, France (GRAPHIC IMAGES)

    *

      15 July 2016
      03:13 GMT

      Buildings in New York Сity and Dallas, Texas, have been lit up in the red, blue and white of the French tricolor in solidarity with Nice.

          Downtown Dallas #DallasStrong lit building and #PrayForNice lot building pic.twitter.com/9mqkfdThZj
          — Kristie McCrary (@McCraryKristie) July 15, 2016

          .@geoffgolberg on #Periscope: NYC, Helmsley Building #PrayForFrance#NiceFrance#Nice06https://t.co/Pr3sUtuTJN
          — Jamie G. (@Jamie_G13) July 15, 2016

    *
      03:06 GMT

      Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Luxembourg counterpart Xavier Bettel have condemned the attack as the two held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Mongolia.
    *
      03:05 GMT

      Some 100 people reportedly jumped into the Mediterranean Sea in a bid to escape the attack. All of the people were safely recovered from the water.
    *
      03:04 GMT

      New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has "directed state law enforcement officials to step up security at high-profile locations around the state, including our airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit systems."

          On behalf of all NYers, I extend my deepest condolences to the people of France. Statement on terror attack in Nice: https://t.co/IsDxwE2rKM
          — Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) July 15, 2016

    *
      02:45 GMT

      Investigators are working on detecting the identity of the attacker, the Interior Ministry said. The public prosecutor is expected to unveil more details later.

          French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve says 80 people have been lost in the attack in #Nicepic.twitter.com/LCwCpyiXs4
          — Gilles Klein (@GillesKLEIN) July 15, 2016

    *
      02:35 GMT

      France has raised its national security alert system Plan Vigipirate across the Alpes-Maritimes area to its highest level, "alert attack," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Cazeneuve has announced a "total" mobilization.
    *
      02:23 GMT

      The Interior Ministry has confirmed that 80 people have been killed in the attack and 18 wounded are in critical condition.
    *
      01:57 GMT

      France's state of emergency is to be extended for three months, Hollande said.

          Hollande: Nice truck crash killing at least 70 was "obviously a terrorist attack" https://t.co/nevLSODAyk
          — MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 15, 2016

    *
      01:51 GMT

      Following the attack, France will recruit an extra 10,000 extra military police officers, Hollande says.
    *
      01:49 GMT

      "France as a whole is under a threat of Islamic terrorism," Holland says.

More

https://www.rt.com/news/351091-france-nice-truck-attack/

[Christopher Marlowe]

I think it is another HOAX. Dummies in the street with fake blood. It is very shocking and sad until you see that those are not real people.

[MikeWB]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/753823520140824577

[rmstock]

EUROPE
French Parliament Votes to Extend State of Emergency
By AURELIEN BREEDEN MAY 19, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/world/europe/french-parliament-votes-to-extend-state-of-emergency.html

   PARIS — The French Parliament on Thursday approved a new two-month
   extension of the state of emergency that was initially declared in the
   aftermath of the Nov. 13 attacks in and around Paris.
   
   The extension will cover two major sporting events taking place this
   summer in France — the Euro 2016 soccer tournament and the Tour de
   France cycling race. The events have prompted fear of additional
   terrorist attacks in a country still on high alert.
   
   Forty-six lawmakers in the National Assembly, the lower house of
   Parliament, voted in favor of the new extension, with 20 against it.
   The Senate, the upper house, already approved the extension on May 10.
   
   
   President François Hollande declared a state of emergency in France on
   Nov. 14, 2015.
    Gonzalo Fuentes/Agence France-Presse — Getty Image
   
   Patrick Calvar, the director of France's domestic intelligence agency,
   told a parliamentary committee on that same day that the Islamic State
   was "planning new attacks" and that the country could be assaulted by
   multiple bombings in crowded areas to create panic.
   
   France is "clearly the most threatened country," Mr. Calvar said,
   pointing to threats from the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.
   
   The French authorities are particularly worried about security at the
   Euro 2016 soccer tournament, which runs from June 10 to July 10, and at
   the Tour de France, from July 2 to July 24.
   
   Both are expected to draw large crowds, especially in cities hosting
   the soccer tournament, which will provide so-called fan zones where
   hundreds of spectators can gather to watch matches on large screens.
   
   
    GRAPHIC
    Uncovering the Links Between the Brussels and Paris Attackers
    At least two of the attackers are believed to have had roles in both plots

   Speaking earlier on Thursday on RTL radio, Prime Minister Manuel Valls
   said that the tournament would not be canceled, despite the security
   concerns, and that the fan zones would be adequately protected.
   
   The state of emergency had already been extended twice, for three-month
   periods, and was scheduled to end on May 26. The new extension is
   expected to be the last.
   
   President François Hollande declared the state of emergency on Nov. 14,
   2015, a day after coordinated teams of Islamic State militants killed
   130 people and wounded more than 400 at a concert hall and in cafes and
   restaurants in central Paris, and outside a soccer stadium in
   St.-Denis, north of the capital.
   
   A parliamentary report published on Tuesday noted that while the state
   of emergency had proved "very useful" in the immediate aftermath of the
   attacks, several of its measures "no longer present the same interest
   today."
   
   The state of emergency had enabled the authorities to put people under
   house arrest and to carry out police raids without the prior
   authorization of a judge. Sixty-nine people are currently under house
   arrest, the report said, and more than 3,500 raids have been carried
   out since Nov. 14.
   
   But the vast majority of those raids were carried out in the first
   three months of the state of emergency, the report said.
   
   The government, acknowledging a diminished need for those kinds of
   raids, left that option out of the new extension. Instead, it will
   focus on other law-enforcement powers granted by the state of emergency
   to local authorities. Those include banning demonstrations and
   forbidding the access and movement of people and vehicles in specific
   areas at specific times.
   
   "The terrorist threat remains at a high level," Interior Minister
   Bernard Cazeneuve told lawmakers before the vote on Thursday. "France,
   like the European Union, represents a target."
   
   
   A version of this article appears in print on May 20, 2016, on page A7
   of the New York edition with the headline: France Again Extends Its
   State of Emergency. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe "


Nice Terror Attack: France Extends State Of Emergency By 3 Months
World | Agencies | Updated: July 15, 2016 09:53 IST
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/after-nice-terror-attack-france-extends-state-of-emergency-by-3-months-1431682

   
   Francois Hollande extended the state of emergency in France after the terror attack in Nice. (AFP Photo)
   
   Paris:
   Highlights
   
      1. 80 People killed, many injured in terror attack in France's Nice.
      2. Attackers drove truck into crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks.
      3. French state of emergency has been extended by 3 months.
   
   French President Francois Hollande said today that the state of
   emergency in the country has been extended by three months after an
   attacker killed 80 people and injured several others in the city of
   Nice, when he drove a truck into a crowded area.
   
   "French state of emergency has been extended for 3 months," President
   Hollande said during an official statement.
   
   An attacker killed 80 people and injured scores when he drove a heavy
   truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the
   French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said.
   
   Counter-terrorist investigators were seeking to identify the driver,
   who a local government official said opened fire before police shot him
   dead. The official said weapons and grenades were found inside the
   25-tonne, unmarked truck.
   
   The attack, which came eight months and a day after Islamic State
   gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris, appeared so far
   to be the work of a lone assailant.
   
   Newspaper Nice-Matin quoted unidentified sources as saying the driver
   was a 31-year-old local of Tunisian origin.
   
   The truck careered for hundreds of metres (yards) along the famed
   Promenade des Anglais seafront, slamming into spectators watching the
   fireworks, listening to an orchestra or strolling above the beach
   towards the grand, century-old Hotel Negresco.
   
   "It's a scene of horror," a local member of parliament, Eric Ciotti,
   told France Info radio, saying the truck had "mown down several hundred
   people." Local government leader Christian Estrosi put the death toll
   at 80. An Interior Ministry spokesman said "several dozen" had died.
   
   Nice-Matin said 42 people were in critical condition and many others
   injured.
   
   "People went down like ninepins," Jacques, who runs Le Queenie
   restaurant on the seafront, told France Info.
   
   "I saw people go down," bystander Franck Sidoli, who was visibly
   shocked, told news agency Reuters at the scene. "Then the truck
   stopped, we were just five metres away. A woman was there, she lost her
   son. Her son was on the ground, bleeding,"
   
   Nice-Matin posted photographs of the truck, its windshield starred by a
   score of bullets and its radiator grille destroyed.
   
   Since the Islamic State attacks last year, major public events in
   France have been guarded by troops and armed police, but it appeared to
   have taken some minutes to halt the progress of the deadly truck as it
   tore along pavements and a pedestrian zone.
   
   Police told residents of the city, located 30 km (20 miles) from the
   Italian border, to stay indoors as they conducted further operations,
   though there was no sign of any other attack.
   
   President Francois Hollande, who raced back to Paris from the south of
   France after the attack, was due to address a sleepless nation on
   television at 3:30 a.m. (0130 GMT). Hours earlier, in a traditional
   Bastille Day interview, he had said an eight-month state of emergency
   might end in two weeks time.
   
   Islamic State militants killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13, the
   bloodiest in a number of attacks in France and Belgium in the past two
   years. On Sunday, a weary nation had breathed a collective sigh of
   relief as the month-long Euro 2016 soccer tournament across France
   ended without a feared attack.
   
   Four months ago, Belgian Islamists linked to the Paris attackers killed
   32 people in Brussels.
   
   Police denied rumours on social media of a subsequent hostage-taking in
   Nice. Vehicle attacks have been used by isolated members of militant
   groups in recent years, notably in Israel, as well as in Europe, though
   never to such devastating effect.
   
   US President Barack Obama said in a statement: "On behalf of the
   American people, I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a
   horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed and wounded
   dozens of innocent civilians."
   
   HIDING IN TERROR
   
   One woman told France Info that she and others had fled in terror: "The
   lorry came zig-zagging along the street. We ran into a hotel and hid in
   the toilets with lots of people."
   
   Regional government chief Estrosi has warned in the past of the risk of
   Islamist attacks in the region, following the attacks in Paris and
   Brussels over the past 18 months.
   
   Nice, a city of some 350,000 that has a history as a flamboyant resort
   but is also a gritty metropolis, has seen some of its Muslim residents
   travel to Syria to fight, a path taken by previous Islamic State
   attackers in Europe.
   
   "Neither the place nor the date are coincidental," a former French
   intelligence agent and security consultant, Claude Moniquet, told
   France-Info, noting the jihadist presence in Nice and the fact that
   July 14 marks France's 1789 revolution.
   
   "Tragic paradox that the subject of Nice attack was the people
   celebrating liberty, equality and fraternity," European Council
   President Donald Tusk said on Twitter."

[Ognir]

Alain Soral predicted exactly the scene

[abduLMaria]

I don't entirely understand the Outrage.
 
Israel has been killing Palestinian Civilians at the average rate of more than 40 a day - since 1948.

America's Terror War - with Sycophant Britain (Tony Blair) going along for the drive-by shooting - has been killing Civilians in Muslim lands since 2002.   14 years, over 1 million casualties (according to Doctors without Borders).

200 Civilians a Day, Killed by American troops, with British support.

That's 2 1/2 Nice incidents every single day for 14 years.

It's one thing when a stranger in a foreign land does it.

It's quite another when your own Country - theoretically Democratic, which means the "Dogs of War" are SUPPOSED to be controlled by the People - kills generations of Civilians in foreign lands.

Why the Outrage over Nice,
and the odd Silence about what our Own Countries do, supposedly under our Direction,
Every Single Day ?

As for France, they are simply unable to tell the truth about why they are hosting so many of Israel's neighbors.

Mid-East refugees who have little to live for - and little to lose.

Cleared from the countries around Israel in a 1000 different ways.

Exported to Europe & the US, who also doesn't tell the truth about the 100% man-made Refugee "Crisis".

How can it be a "Crisis" when it is going exactly according to IsraHell's plan ?


Why the Selective Outrage ?

The Media tells us to be outraged about Nice.

The Media ignores the Atrocities committed by the US and England in the name of Anglo American and Israeli foreign policy.

Obviously the Media plays a big part in shaping people's VSO - Very Selective Outrage.

[MikeWB]

Mohamed Bouhel's children.

[Ognir]

NICE: FRONT VIEW OF TRUCK ATTACK

Dramatic moments when terrorist drives through the promenade, swerving left and right .... Truck heading straight towards cameraman ..

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b81_1468627473

[Ognir]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=68f_1468612513

Recorded on a mobile phone
Where is the sound
Didn't see panic

[yankeedoodle]

Over One Third Of Nice Attack Victims Were Muslim
http://www.mintpressnews.com/one-third-nice-attack-victims-muslim/218654/

[yankeedoodle]

Great little analysis from James Corbett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NKOmWbqNPI0

[MikeWB]

 Accomplices spent months helping Nice truck killer prepare attack – French prosecutor

The man responsible for mowing down 84 people in Nice planned the attack in advance, and was aided by a tight-knit team of associates, who helped him sketch out his plan, and acquired weapons for him.

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French police continue their investigation as they work near the heavy truck that ran into a crowd at high speed celebrating the Bastille Day July 14 national holiday on the Promenade des Anglais killing 80 people in Nice, France, July 15, 2016. © Eric Gaillard Truck attack in Nice: No national police present, French govt admits

"He seems to have envisaged and developed his criminal plans several months before carrying them out," said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, speaking in a news briefing. "The investigation since the night of July 14 has kept moving forward and allowed us not only to confirm again the premeditated nature of [killer] Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's deadly act, but also to establish that he benefited from support and had accomplices in the preparation and carrying out of his criminal act."

Police have uncovered thousands of calls and messages between Lahouaiej Bouhlel, and five accomplices, after going through his social media accounts, laptop and phone records.

"Put 2,000 tons of metal in the truck, f**k the brakes, and I'll be watching," says one message sent to Lahouaiej Bouhlel in April.

Four men and one woman, aged between 22 and 40. have been arrested. Among the suspects are a Tunisian man (same nationality as the attacker), two French-Tunisians, an Albanian, and a French-Albanian woman.
Read more
This image shows a reproduction of the residence permit of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the man who rammed his truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice on July 14. © French Police Source Violent, obsessed with sex, dated 73yo man: Phone records, witnesses expose Nice attacker

The five will soon appear before a court, to be read their initial charges. Only one of the suspects has a significant crime record, and none were on a terrorist watch list.

Police findings appear to contradict initial claims that the attacker was a "lone wolf" and was "radicalized" quickly.

Lahouaiej Bouhlel's laptop contained detailed photos of last year's Bastille Day fireworks, saved articles about other terrorist attacks, and mentions of the "magical" drug Captagon, a stimulant popular with militants fighting for Islamic State.

There are pro-jihadist messages between the group dating back at least as far back as January 2015, in which one of the suspects writes, "I'm happy they brought the soldiers of Allah to finish the work," following the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine.

In the past year alone, Lahouaiej Bouhlel, had more than 1,270 conversations from his mobile with one of the men.

The accomplices continued to support Lahouaiej Bouhlel up until the day of the attack.

The Albanian couple allegedly helped 31-year-old Lahouaiej Bouhlel acquire the gun he used to shoot at policemen during his fatal drive.

One of the Tunisian men was photographed inside the leased truck, which was used in the attack, on two separate occasions (three days and one day before it happened). DNA belonging to another was located on one of the seats.

    Nice attack was premeditated, French prosecutor says - https://t.co/pp2BiJYgGwpic.twitter.com/1snVGvlBiy
    — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 21, 2016

Even as he set off for his massacre, Lahouaiej Bouhlel sent two pre-recorded messages – which Molins described as "odious" – to his accomplices, in one of which the attacker thanked a man for a gun.

One of the men appears to have scouted the fireworks display for Lahouaiej Bouhlel in advance, and another stayed behind after the 2km rampage was over, taking photographs of medics and police wrapping up the dead bodies, and collecting evidence.

Investigators later found drugs, €2,600 ($2865) in cash and 11 mobile phones in the home of one of the suspects.

Molins says the suspects could now face charges of "participating in a terrorist organization with a view to preparing one or more crimes against the public."
https://www.rt.com/news/352548-nice-attacker-accomplices-plot/