Five to appear in Paris court in connection with Nice attack

Rather than dismantling the tributes to the dead, volunteers moved them from the spots where victims fell along the killer’s trajectory to a gazebo in a seaside park.

Joggers, cyclists and sun-seekers are back on Nice’s famed Riviera coast, a further sign of normal life returning on the Promenade des Anglais where dozens were killed in last week’s Bastille Day truck attack.

The more emotional in the crowd refused to let crews remove the trash until police wearing bullet-proof vests arrived and cooled tensions. The driver was a Tunisian man who had been living in Nice for several years.

In what represents a backtracking from previous claims, Cazeneuve said only local police, who are more lightly armed, were guarding the entrance when Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove his truck in on the sidewalk.

The Nice attacker took selfies on the promenade hours before mowing down 84 people with a lorry on Bastille Day, prosecutors have revealed.

Mr Molins described a quick radicalisation of a man who in the past had not been religious.

A search of his computer also found violent images “linked to radical Islam”, he told a press conference in Paris.

Cazeneuve told France’s RTL radio that Bouhlel, a Nice resident from Tunisia, may have been inspired by the Islamic State, but any “links for now have not been established by the investigation”.

While officials have said the attack was obviously premeditated, they have not found any evidence that Bouhlel had coordinated with an extremist network. In Dallas last week, five police officers were gunned down in an attack that is suspected to have been anti-police, and not religiously motivated.

Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the driver, had a record of violence and weapons offences but was unknown to the intelligence agencies.

Meanwhile, France held a country-wide moment of silence on Monday to remember the victims, but mourning was punctured by anger and political division.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls was loudly booed on Monday as he came and went from a memorial ceremony on the Nice shore, an expression of widespread criticism of security failures.

These details followed remarks Monday by Bouhlel’s uncle Sadok Bouhlel, who said his nephew had been indoctrinated by an Algerian member of the Islamic State based in Nice as recently as two weeks ago.

Bouhlel’s rapid radicalization has puzzled investigators. Friends and family said he hadn’t been an observant Muslim in the past.

The ministry said French authorities on Tuesday confirmed the man’s death.

Opposition parties have accused the Socialist government of not doing enough to prevent the third major attack in France in 18 months.

After a special security meeting, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French forces in the USA -led coalition struck IS targets again overnight and on Saturday.

He said France will continue its military operations overseas, which include airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, anti-terrorism operations in Africa and special forces in Libya. We also think it’s only fair that Adelaide has a say in how much media exposure she is comfortable with.

Ultimately, the motivation behind the attacks is still unknown, even though the Islamic State has taken responsibility. “But, the investigation will establish the facts”.

French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve defended the government efforts to halt terror attacks, calling for “dignity and truth” from critical opposition politicians as the national mood sours further nine months ahead of the next presidential election.