Nice: truck attack, France mourns 84 killed

Terror and carnage in Nice, on the feast day of 14 July. Shortly before 22.30 on the promenade des Anglais, while people attended the celebrations of the French National Day, a truck plunged into the crowd at a speed of 80 km / h mowing people: when recording 84 deaths, including many children , and about 100 injured (54 children).

The driver of the truck was a French-Tunisian of 31 years, then killed, and "it was only in the vehicle", and "if he had accomplices, was upstream," says a reporter for Le Figaro, explaining that the police are looking into the city video surveillance images to understand where exactly the bomber either party.

One of the two police heroes who neutralized the Nice killer is a woman. "One person jumped on the truck for groped to stop him – he told Europe 1 radio the chairman of the Department of Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti -. Is at that moment that the police were able to neutralize this terrorist. I'll never forget your face of this cop which has cut the killer ".

According to French media, the terrorist would arrive in France from North Africa just as the truck was hired a few days in a nearby town.

French President Francois Hollande expressed his thought with a tweet: "France mourns, mourned, but is strong and will be even more of fanatics who today want to hit her." Messages of condolence arrived at number one Elysee from all over the world.