ISIS reportedly claims responsibility for Nice attack

France has not indicated whether the attack stemmed from a sympathizer taking direction from ISIS or an ISIS member sent to attack.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that, after gunmen and suicide bombings, France was facing “a new kind of attack”. A police source told Reuters that he was not on the French intelligence watch list, but he was known to be connected to some common crimes. “We think, after agreeing with authorities, that the race must continue”. The other four are men. The group also described the attacker as a “soldier” of the organization.

But, as the conviction was his first, the sentence was suspended.

“He would become angry and he shouted… he would break anything he saw in front of him”, Mohamed Mondher Lahouaiej-Bouhlel said in Tunisia.

Despite his criminal record, Bouhlel was not on the radar for any kind of terror threat.

But prosecutors said that he wasn’t known to intelligence services, according to the Associated Press.

“He had never been the subject of any kind of file or indication of radicalization”.

Terror experts have suggested that ISIS could have been waiting for confirmation that Bouhlel had made this pledge before officially claiming responsibility, explaining the delay in the group’s statement. “Everybody said, “Get down, get down”, she said.

His father said Bouhlel had violent episodes during which “he broke everything he found around him”.

The woman’s lawyer, Jean-Yves Garino, told BFM-TV that Bouhlel physically abused her and the rest of the family, and she eventually threw him out of the house.

As Nice’s coastal promenade along the Mediterranean Sea reopened, tourists and residents paid tribute to the 84 people killed and the 200 wounded in Thursday night’s attack, their blood still jarringly visible on the pavement.

Investigators said the so-called Cannes-Torcy cell was one of the most potentially unsafe they had ever dismantled.

He said: “We are a bit wary of bomb attacks so we are used to the security”. I turned around and there was someone on the side of it as it was hitting people.

Most people on the boulevard struggled to avoid the truck as it approached.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it has no reason to believe an Irish person was caught up in the Nice terrorist attack.

“What I know is that he didn’t pray, he didn’t go to the mosque, he had no ties to religion”, said the father, noting that Bouhlel didn’t respect the Islamic fasting rituals during the month of Ramadan – an account seconded by neighbors in Nice. “Horrific scenes. Definitely puts things into perspective for us”.

Mr Cazeneuve seemed to confirm that Laouaiej-Bouhlel was merely inspired – but not dispatched by – Islamic State.

He was one of several calling for action, and not merely “the same old solemn declarations” from the government, as Le Figaro daily said.

Bouhlel, who was shot dead by police, was from Msaken, about 120 km (75 miles) south of Tunis, and had last visited the town four years ago.

Hollande declared a national mourning period from Saturday to Monday.

As well as killing 84 people (including 10 children), the attack also injured 202 people, with 52 in a critical state and 25 of them in intensive care.

Nice’s beaches, which are usually packed in mid-July, were noticeably less busy. “And France will have to live with terrorism”. “They are absolutely exhausted after a year and a half of intense efforts to try and protect this country”, Cruickshank said. Events in France, notably the stadiums and fan-zones for the Euro 2016 soccer tournament which ended on Sunday, were heavily guarded by troops and armed police but these were spread thin on July 14.