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Attack on Nice: French PM Valls booed at commemoration | Attack on Nice: French PM Valls booed at commemoration |
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has been booed as he attended a minute's silence in Nice, where an attacker in a lorry killed 84 people on Thursday. | French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has been booed as he attended a minute's silence in Nice, where an attacker in a lorry killed 84 people on Thursday. |
Hecklers shouted out "murderer" and "resign" at him before the minute's silence, held across the nation. | Hecklers shouted out "murderer" and "resign" at him before the minute's silence, held across the nation. |
Earlier, centre-right opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy accused the government of failing to provide security. | Earlier, centre-right opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy accused the government of failing to provide security. |
Troops are to be redeployed to tourist spots as inquiries continue into the killer's possible links to jihadists. | Troops are to be redeployed to tourist spots as inquiries continue into the killer's possible links to jihadists. |
Mr Sarkozy, a former president, called for any foreign nationals with links to radical Islam to be expelled from France. | Mr Sarkozy, a former president, called for any foreign nationals with links to radical Islam to be expelled from France. |
From public shock to anger: analysis by Hugh Schofield, BBC Paris Correspondent | |
This was a scene that has never been seen before in France at a national act of homage: the head of government booed and called a murderer. | |
The angry reception that Prime Minister Manuel Valls received when he observed the minute's silence in Nice is a stark warning of how the mood in the country has changed. | |
The attacks of last year seemed too extraordinary to provoke much more than shock and horror. | |
But Nice showed that mass terror is becoming regular and ordinary. And - as Manuel Valls saw at the ceremony - that is beginning to make people very angry indeed. | |
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The authorities say Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in Nice, became radicalised only recently. | The authorities say Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in Nice, became radicalised only recently. |
Investigators say they have not yet found evidence that he pledged allegiance to radical groups or had contact with known extremists. | |
But Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said images found on his computer as well as recent internet searches showed he had a "clear and recent interest" in radical Islamist movements. | |
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel rented the 19-tonne truck used in the attack on 4 July and drove to the Promenade des Anglais twice in the days before the attack, Mr Molins said. | |
Examinations of his computer showed he had searched for details of the Bastille Day celebrations in Nice as well as videos showing "terrible" traffic accidents. | |
This showed that his act was "premeditated and deliberate", Mr Molins said. | |
Many of the dead and injured were children watching a Bastille Day fireworks display with their families. | Many of the dead and injured were children watching a Bastille Day fireworks display with their families. |
There are still 74 people in hospital, 28 of whom are in intensive care, Mr Molins said. | |
Thirteen of the victims have not yet been identified, he said. | |
'Rapid radicalisation' | 'Rapid radicalisation' |
Neighbours have described Lahouaiej-Bouhlel as a violent loner who liked to drink, lift weights and go salsa dancing. | |
Mr Valls has suggested the killer may have been radicalised too quickly to trigger the authorities' attention. | Mr Valls has suggested the killer may have been radicalised too quickly to trigger the authorities' attention. |
He was shot dead by police when his vehicle's path along the Promenade des Anglais was eventually halted. | He was shot dead by police when his vehicle's path along the Promenade des Anglais was eventually halted. |
Tunisian security sources have told the BBC he visited Tunisia frequently, most recently eight months ago. | Tunisian security sources have told the BBC he visited Tunisia frequently, most recently eight months ago. |
IS said the attacker was acting in response to its calls to target civilians in countries that are part of the coalition ranged against it. | IS said the attacker was acting in response to its calls to target civilians in countries that are part of the coalition ranged against it. |
Six people are being held in connection with the killings. | Six people are being held in connection with the killings. |
They are people who may have been in recent contact with Lahouaiej-Bouhlel or who may have helped him get the gun he used in the attack, Mr Molins said. | |
The latest arrests, of an Albanian couple who have not been identified, were on Sunday morning, French judicial sources say. | The latest arrests, of an Albanian couple who have not been identified, were on Sunday morning, French judicial sources say. |
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife, who was detained on Friday, was released on Sunday. | Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife, who was detained on Friday, was released on Sunday. |