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In the attack in Nice on July 14, 2016 , the assassin Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck through a crowd on the Promenade des Anglais . At least 86 people were killed and more than 400 injured, some seriously. The assassin was shot dead by police officers who had been dispatched while he was still seated in the driver's cab, and several alleged accomplices were subsequently arrested on charges of forming a terrorist group . The terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sequence of events

Course of the attack (in an easterly direction)
Street scene at the Galeries Lafayette department store , shortly after the attack

On the evening of July 14 were in the context of the celebrations of the French national holiday about 30,000 people on the beach promenade of Nice in order from there a fireworks display to watch.

At around 10:45 p.m., the assassin drove a white Renault Midlum 300 truck with a refrigerated body onto the beach promenade, which was closed to traffic. Between house numbers 11 and 147, he deliberately ran over several hundred people over a distance of about two kilometers. He shot three policemen several times near the Hotel Negresco ; these returned fire. He drove on for another 300 meters, then the truck stopped not far from the Palais de la Méditerranée . The assassin was dead. Among other things, a 7.65 mm caliber pistol, cartridge cases and unused cartridges, several dummy rifles and a non-functional grenade were found, as well as a mobile phone that was switched on, as well as his driver's license and credit card. He had rented the truck a few days earlier in the Nice region.

Victim

Victims by origin
nationality Deceased Injured Ref.
AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 000000000000005.00000000005
ArmeniaArmenia Armenia 000000000000002.00000000002
AustraliaAustralia Australia 000000000000005.00000000005
BelgiumBelgium Belgium 000000000000001.00000000001 000000000000001.00000000001
BrazilBrazil Brazil 000000000000002.00000000002 000000000000003.00000000003
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 000000000000002.00000000002
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 000000000000001.00000000001
GermanyGermany Germany 000000000000003.00000000003 000000000000002.00000000002
EstoniaEstonia Estonia 000000000000002.00000000002 000000000000004.00000000004th
FranceFrance France 000000000000038.000000000038
GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia 000000000000001.00000000001
IrelandIreland Ireland 000000000000001.00000000001
ItalyItaly Italy 000000000000006.00000000006th 000000000000003.00000000003
KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 000000000000004.00000000004th
MadagascarMadagascar Madagascar 000000000000002.00000000002 000000000000004.00000000004th
MalaysiaMalaysia Malaysia 000000000000001.00000000001
MoroccoMorocco Morocco 000000000000003.00000000003 000000000000001.00000000001
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 000000000000002.00000000002
PolandPoland Poland 000000000000002.00000000002
PortugalPortugal Portugal 000000000000004.00000000004th
RomaniaRomania Romania 000000000000001.00000000001 000000000000004.00000000004th
RussiaRussia Russia 000000000000002.00000000002 000000000000003.00000000003
SingaporeSingapore Singapore 000000000000001.00000000001
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 000000000000003.00000000003
TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 000000000000004.00000000004th
UkraineUkraine Ukraine 000000000000001.00000000001 000000000000002.00000000002
HungaryHungary Hungary 000000000000001.00000000001
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 000000000000001.00000000001
United StatesUnited States United States 000000000000003.00000000003
Currently unknown 000000000000000.00000000000 000000000000202.0000000000202
Total 86 303

86 people from 21 nations were killed in the attack and more than 400 others were injured, some seriously. Among the fatalities are two schoolgirls and a teacher from Berlin and two women and a girl from Switzerland.

Perpetrator

The perpetrator was the 31-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Salmene Lahouaiej Bouhlel (born January 3, 1985 in M'saken ). He moved to France in 2005, lived in Nice and had a residence permit valid until 2019. According to the investigating authorities, he was known to the police as a petty criminal and a few months before the attack he was sentenced to a 6-month suspended sentence for a violent conflict. His wife, a Franco-Tunisian woman, and the three children separated from the delivery driver 18 months before the attack after violent acts against her. The perpetrator's father reported that his non-religious son had previously received medical treatment for mental health problems. Based on the results of the investigation, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls assumes that Lohouaiej Bouhlel radicalized himself Islamistically before the attack . According to witnesses, this could have happened in a short time. According to Prosecutor General François Molins , Lahouaiej Bouhlel had expressed his support for the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) and searched the Internet for propaganda material.

On July 16, 2016, two days after the attack, ISIS confessed to the crime through its mouthpiece Amaq . It reads: “The person who carried out the run over operation in Nice, France, was one of the soldiers of the Islamic State. He carried out the operation in response to calls to target the members of the international alliance fighting the Islamic State. ”The letter of confession did not contain any perpetrator knowledge or evidence that the IS was actually involved in the act or informed in advance. Six days after the attack, an IS propaganda video was released in which Rachid Kassim praised the perpetrator and then beheaded two alleged spies in front of the camera .

According to Attorney General Molins, the assassin had started planning the act months earlier. Pictures of two fireworks and a concert on Nice's seafront in the summer of 2015 were found on his mobile phone. The focus was always on the crowd. He had also saved a newspaper article about a man who raced a vehicle onto a restaurant terrace.

On the mobile phone of the offender references were to the amphetamine - derivative Captagon found. In the Syrian Civil War , the substance is also used as a stimulant for fighters.

Five suspected accomplices who have been arrested are being investigated, among other things, for involvement in a terrorist organization who helped prepare the crime.

Reactions

After the attack, President François Hollande said in a nightly address to the nation: "France was attacked on July 14th , the symbol of freedom." France will not accept the attack on freedom and will defend its values. Hollande announced that he would expand the attacks on the terrorist organization Islamic State . Because the whole of France is threatened by Islamist terrorism , reserves will be mobilized from the security forces and soldiers. In particular, the staff at the French borders should be increased. Hollande decided to extend the state of emergency , which had already been imposed for all of France in response to the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris and which had been in effect uninterrupted since then, by three months; Just a few hours before the attack, he announced the lifting of the emergency on July 26, 2016 in his interview on the national holiday . On July 21, 2016, after the National Assembly , the Senate also approved the extension of the state of emergency by six months until January 2017.

The United Nations Security Council condemned the attack. The German Federal President Joachim Gauck said: "An attack on France is [...] an attack on the entire free world." Chancellor Angela Merkel declared: "Germany stands on France's side in the fight against terrorism." Austria's Chancellor Christian Kern assured France on July 15th of his solidarity; Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz called for the "defense against terrorism".

On July 16, the French Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, called on all willing “patriotic citizens” to do reserve service with the security forces. He announced that he would increase the manpower of the reserve units considerably and extend the maximum service period from 30 to up to 150 days per year.

At an event in Nice on July 18, originally planned as a minute of silence, Prime Minister Manuel Valls was whistled, booed and insulted by angry residents. The day before, former President Nicolas Sarkozy described the fight against terrorism as an " all-out war ".

Consequences, effects

The Rihanna concert and the jazz festival in Nice were canceled, other festivals in nearby places held minutes of silence. Several tour operators responded with a free cancellation option for vacationers.

Germany

In Berlin, the beginning of the planned Franco-German folk festival on Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate was postponed by one day. The French embassy put the tricolor at half-mast . Mourning flags were ordered for federal authorities and in several federal states.

Austria

In Austria, too, the three flags in front of the parliament building were raised to half-mast.

Italy

Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on July 15, 2016 that controls were being tightened at three border crossings between Italy and France. Trains at the Ventimiglia border station would also be more closely controlled.

Previous attacks and attempted attacks in Nice

In 2014, Nice narrowly escaped an attack: a terrorist group known as “Cannes-Torcy” wanted to carry out an attack on the partying crowd during the Nice Carnival. The alleged main perpetrator, a 24-year-old returnees from Syria, was arrested three days before the start of the carnival.

In February 2015, the Islamist Moussa Coulibaly attacked three soldiers on duty with a knife in front of a Jewish religious center in Nice. Coulibaly was overwhelmed and has been in custody ever since.

Nice has long been a stronghold of jihadists , but also of the extreme right.

Dispute between the city of Nice and the government

Ten days after the attack, the head of video surveillance at the city police in Nice told the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) that she had been pressured to amend her report on the police presence on the evening of the attack and to delete surveillance videos. The city administration of Nice accuses the government in Paris of not having made sufficient resources available to the central police ( Police nationale ), which is responsible for public safety . According to a newspaper report, the beach promenade, which is closed to vehicle traffic, is said to have been "secured" on the evening of the attack by a single car belonging to the municipal police ( Police municipale ), which is actually mainly responsible for traffic control and regulatory tasks . The National Police was not in use there - contrary to what the Interior Minister stated. Otherwise the traffic was only diverted through simple metal barriers.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve filed a criminal complaint against the director for defamation. On September 21, 2017, the police officer's trial ended with an acquittal.

Effects on international state security concepts for counter-terrorism

“Nice lock” made of Nestler blocks on the Day of German Unity 2016 in Dresden
Small Nice barrier with anchoring in the ground foundation - in Dresden

As a consequence of the Nice attack, a new security concept for counter-terrorism was implemented in the Federal Republic of Germany for the first time in October 2016. On the Day of German Unity in the Saxon capital of Dresden , "Nice barriers" were set up to protect the festival visitors. They used 2.5 tons of heavy, Lego-like stackable precast concrete elements, which are otherwise used by a Dresden waste company to set up temporary waste storage ( Nestler block ). The city center of Dresden was declared a large area of ​​the security zone by official ordinance and over 1400 "Nice blocking blocks" were erected around the festival area as protective line walls to ward off car and truck attacks. Festival visitors and residents also called these security blocking blocks " Legos " because of their shape . Thousands of police officers and the special unit GSG 9 were on duty to protect the Federal President , the Federal Chancellor and all visitors.

After the attack on the Berlin Christmas market at the Memorial Church , the city of Dresden implemented the security concept from the Day of German Unity again. The entrances to the Striezelmarkt were blocked off with concrete blocks to protect the Christmas market visitors in order to prevent cars and trucks from entering. In crash tests carried out with trucks in April and June 2017, they proved to be almost ineffective - even if they were connected with chains - because they did not stop the truck, but were simply pushed away by it. For this reason, new security concepts were created for Dresden. Ball-shaped Nice barriers were firmly anchored in the ground foundation .

Memorial ceremony 2017

A year after the attack, the 86 deaths were commemorated in Nice with a mourning ceremony, which was attended by numerous relatives as well as the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and his predecessors François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy . At the beginning, representatives of the police and rescue services as well as citizens were awarded medals, including the French Franck Terrier. He chased the truck with his scooter, then grabbed the cab and hit the assassin to stop the truck.

See also

Web links

Commons : Nice attack 2016  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

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Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′ 41.8 "  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 48.8"  E