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84 dead, ten of them children, some fifty others in critical condition, a reinforced state of emergency, a city and a nation in shock. This after a truck rammed through the crowd at the Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice. Our World This Week panelists try to make sense of thursday night's events.
84 dead, ten of them children, some fifty others in critical condition, a reinforced state of emergency, a city and a nation in shock. This after a truck rammed through the crowd at the Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice. Our World This Week panelists try to make sense of thursday night's events.
Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, was killed by police after a four-minute rampage down the seaside embankment of the Promenade des Anglais, where thousands of locals and tourists were celebrating July 14 or Bastille Day in 2016. FRANCE 24's Dheepthika Laurent reports from the courthouse in Paris.
Eight suspects go on trial Monday (September 5) over the July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice, where a radical Islamist killed 86 people by driving a truck into thousands of locals and tourists celebrating France's national day. FRANCE 24's Dheepthika Laurent tells us more.
The suspects will go on trial in Paris on Monday over their role in helping the attacker drive a truck into a crowd assembled for a Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice in 2016.