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| Truck Attack in Nice, France: What We Know, and What We Don’t | Truck Attack in Nice, France: What We Know, and What We Don’t |
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| The driver of a large white truck mowed down a crowd gathered to watch Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, France, on Thursday night. Scores of people were killed and injured in what the French president called a terrorist attack. | The driver of a large white truck mowed down a crowd gathered to watch Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, France, on Thursday night. Scores of people were killed and injured in what the French president called a terrorist attack. |
| • The truck sped down the crowded seaside promenade in Nice around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, until the police forced it to stop and shot the driver to death. | • The truck sped down the crowded seaside promenade in Nice around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, until the police forced it to stop and shot the driver to death. |
| • At least 84 people were killed and 202 were injured, government officials said Friday. President François Hollande of France said that at least 50 of the injured had been critically hurt. Many of the victims were children. Foreigners among the dead included three Germans, two Americans, two Tunisians and a Russian. | |
| • French and Tunisian news organizations identified the man believed to be the driver as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, a delivery-truck driver raised in northeast Tunisia who moved to France around 2005. His name was not on a government database of radicalized militants. | • French and Tunisian news organizations identified the man believed to be the driver as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, a delivery-truck driver raised in northeast Tunisia who moved to France around 2005. His name was not on a government database of radicalized militants. |
| • Mr. Hollande called it a terrorist attack, convened an emergency meeting at the Interior Ministry in Paris, and he said that a state of emergency established after the Paris attacks eight months ago would be extended by an additional three months. It had been scheduled to expire on July 26. | • Mr. Hollande called it a terrorist attack, convened an emergency meeting at the Interior Ministry in Paris, and he said that a state of emergency established after the Paris attacks eight months ago would be extended by an additional three months. It had been scheduled to expire on July 26. |
| • France will observe three days of national mourning, starting on Saturday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced Friday morning. He said that the country would not give in to terrorism, but he warned that it had entered an era in which it would have to live with terrorism. | • France will observe three days of national mourning, starting on Saturday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced Friday morning. He said that the country would not give in to terrorism, but he warned that it had entered an era in which it would have to live with terrorism. |
| • The motive for the attack, whether the truck driver had accomplices, or whether any radical Islamist organizations may have played a role. | • The motive for the attack, whether the truck driver had accomplices, or whether any radical Islamist organizations may have played a role. |
| • The extent and adequacy of security preparations for the large crowds attending Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday, especially in cities outside Paris, like Nice. There was extensive security in place for the recent Euro 2016 soccer tournament. | • The extent and adequacy of security preparations for the large crowds attending Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday, especially in cities outside Paris, like Nice. There was extensive security in place for the recent Euro 2016 soccer tournament. |
| • Whether France’s intelligence and security agencies had received any hints of the danger. On July 5, a parliamentary inquiry examining last year’s attacks found widespread failures in the collection and analysis of information that could have helped prevent those assaults. | • Whether France’s intelligence and security agencies had received any hints of the danger. On July 5, a parliamentary inquiry examining last year’s attacks found widespread failures in the collection and analysis of information that could have helped prevent those assaults. |