(Dagbladet): At least 84 people are killed and at least 18 are critically injured after a truck ran into the crowd during the celebration of Bastille Day on the harbor promenade in Nice last night.
The perpetrator was then shot and killed by police. In the truck that was used in the attack, police found identification papers to be belonging to a 31 year old fransktunisier who is from Nice.
The man is now the prime suspect for the attack.
Not in the security registry
identification papers belonging to a 31 year old Frenchman with Tunisian background, informs news agency police source early Friday morning.
According to the newspaper Le Parisien and several French media, the man was born in 1985. They also wrote that he was not listed in the so-called S-register. S-register is a base for people French authorities think may have been radicalized. Sky News writes that the man was born in Tunisia.
BFMTV writes that the man was an acquaintance of the police cases of violence and use of weapons, but not terrorism. The truck that was used should have been let.
According to the newspaper Le Figaro, the police are trying to get secure identification of the man who was driving the truck. Police also believe such identification can tell us whether the perpetrator acted alone.
Found fake weapons
The man who drove the attack car in Nice, according to multiple media have fired several shots with a pistol before he was shot and killed by police, according to investigative sources.
Several witnesses has told a man jumped out of the truck and fired shots into the crowd, but this has not been confirmed by the authorities.
Jean-Michel Pretre by prosecutors in Nice says that vehicle drove two kilometers through a large crowd who watched the fireworks. French authorities reviewing the situation as “an attack”.
The news agency AFP writes that another source close to the investigation has told that an unexploded grenade was found inside the 19-tonne truck, in addition to several fake rifles.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve gave this morning notified that they will let prosecutors in Nice investigate the identity of the perpetrator and prevent spread of false news.
Identifies killed
There was utter chaos when the truck drove into the crowd in the center of Nice, where thousands were to see the fireworks on Independence Day just after 22.30 yesterday.
dozens coroners are now underway to identify the victims of the attack.
No not complied with a list of nationalities but including Fox News reports that two Americans were killed.
Pressevakt in UD, Ane Haavard Daughter Lunde, according to Dagbladet eve at 7:00 Friday morning that they still do not have any indications that the Norwegians were hit in attack.
– The situation remains unresolved. French authorities have not released information on casualties, she said.
– Terror
It is declared disaster status in Nice, and a number of contingency plans are activated. French President Francois Hollande said last night that several children were killed in the attack.
Hollande described the incident as a terrorist attack.
– France is under threat from Islamist terrorism. We must show vigilance and firmness, said Hollande.
panic
Norwegian Espen Kjøløymo (27) was a few hundred meters behind part of the promenade where the truck ran over and killed dozens of people.
– I sat and relaxed, and suddenly I heard people began to shout. Then came a whole crowd running towards me. I made eye contact with a woman who said that we had to run because there were some that shot, says Kjøløymo Dagbladet.
Norwegian gether Ulriksen from Lørenskog is in Nice and says it erupted full panic after a big bang.
– We sat in the room and just after the fireworks came thousands of people running down the street. It was complete chaos and full panic. People screamed and ran in all directions, she tells Dagbladet telephone from Nice
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