Live: five years later, Jean Castex pays tribute to the victims of the Nice attack

Published on : 07/14/2021 – 16:03

Prime Minister Jean Castex, accompanied among others by the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, and the Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, takes part, Wednesday, July 14, in the ceremony of tribute to the victims of the jihadist attack perpetrated five years ago on the Promenade des Anglais.

At his side also, the mayor LR Christian Estrosi, who was in the morning in Paris to see “his” municipal police – a tribute to his intervention during an attack which had, last October, three dead in a basilica , awakening the sorrows of the city.

Sober and intimate according to the wishes of the families, the ceremony will end with the release of 86 doves. A tribute concert is planned in the evening, at the end of which will be lit on the seafront, at 22:34 sharp – the time of the attack – 86 light beams.

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On July 14, 2016, the evening of National Day in France, around 30,000 people gathered on the seafront bordering the Baie des Anges for the traditional fireworks display.

It was in this crowd that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian in his thirties living in Nice, drove a 19-ton truck, mowing dozens of people for two minutes, before the police don’t bring it down.

The attack, which left 86 dead and 206 wounded, was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State, which then controlled territories in Iraq and Syria. The investigation did not confirm any connection between the ultra-radical organization and its author.

With AFP