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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2016 18:46:17 GMT
French leaders extended the country's 8-month-old state of emergency Friday and vowed to deploy thousands of police reservists on the streets after a Tunisian man drove a truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 84 people and wounding 202 others. Video shot by witnesses shows the truck coming under police gunfire as it drives through an intersection along the palm tree-lined Promenade des Anglais, which had been turned into a pedestrian walkway for the independence day celebrations. Crowds flee in panic, taking shelter in shops, hotels or leaping off the elevated pavement onto the beach below. Police finally surround the stationary truck and fatally shoot its driver. Molins said Bouhlel's estranged wife was arrested in Nice on Friday, while Bouhlel narrowly avoided being put behind bars months before the attack. He said Bouhlel had received a six-month prison sentence in March for a conviction for assault with a weapon, but other legal officials said his sentence was suspended because it was his first conviction. The weapon used was a plank of wood against another driver after a traffic accident. Molins said 52 of the 202 wounded in the attack remained in critical condition Friday night, 25 of them on life support. Among the dead, officials said, were 10 children as well as three Germans, two Americans, Moroccans and Armenians, and one person each from Russia, Switzerland and Ukraine. Two Scots were listed as missing.
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2016 18:46:17 GMT
President Francois Hollande has announced a further three months of national emergency following the Bastille Day attacks in Nice. Speaking at a press conference in Paris, the leader said that France is a prime target for terror attacks because “human rights are denied by those fanatics”. He announced that France’s state of national emergency will continue for three months more, as opposed to ending on 26 July as planned. Hollande returned to Paris early on Friday morning following initial reports of the attack that left at least 80 dead and a further 18 in a critical condition.
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2016 18:40:50 GMT
In social networks, famous athletes from the different countries are mourning together with the French and calling for peace. Last night France shuddered from another terrorist attack. The horror of what happened spread throughout Europe and did not leave indifferent. Famous athletes could not stay away and morally supported the victims , placing themselves in social networks have sympathy with the hashtag #PrayForNice. Russian figure skaters and Olympic champions Yulia Lipnitskaya and Alexei Yagudin placed in the social network Instagram posts mourning for those killed in Nice.
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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2016 18:37:42 GMT
The Council of State suspended the ban in Villeneuve-Loubet, just west of Nice, saying it "seriously, and clearly illegally, breached the fundamental freedoms to come and go, the freedom of beliefs and individual freedom." The Riviera town was one of roughly 30 municipalities to forbid beachgoers from donning the swimsuit often worn by Muslim women, reporter Jake Cigainero tells our Newscast unit. The ruling is expected to effect those other bans, The Associated Press reports. And a lawyer representing the Human Rights League — one of the groups that challenged Villeneuve-Loubet's ban — tells the news service that the decision "is meant to set legal precedent."
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