FRANCE - Truck drives into crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, 2016 *Guilty*
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Great read thanx!!
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I agree. It's a long read, but worth it.
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I'm thinking of everyone who was murdered on the first anniversary tomorrow. I will never forget the faces of the victims. The people who were injured some with life changing injuries continue to be in my prayers. I hope Bastille Day passes without incident tomorrow. I hope everyone is super vigilant.
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Amen, Greg.
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86 LIGHT BEAMS ON THE BOULEVARD OF NICE, ONE FOR EACH VICTIM
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[video=twitter;885972304693526528]https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/885972304693526528[/video]
VIDEO - Nice: 86 light beams illuminate the sky of the Promenade des Anglais https://t.co/RHvLIxv94X
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[video=twitter;885972304693526528]https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/885972304693526528[/video]
VIDEO - Nice: 86 light beams illuminate the sky of the Promenade des Anglais https://t.co/RHvLIxv94X
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This tribute for the victims is lovely ZaZara thank you for sharing. I'm so, so glad we are not posting in a thread about another tragedy hitting France tonight.
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L'avocate de Tahar Mejri demande officiellement qu'il soit reconnu comme la 87e victime de l'attentat de Nice
Three years after losing his son and ex-wife in the Nice bombing, Tahar Mejri died. "Of grief," according to his relatives. His lawyer announced on Monday that she will take the necessary legal steps to ensure that he is recognized as a direct victim of the attack.
On July 14, 2016, four-year-old Kylan went to see the fireworks with his mother. After the Nice bombing, he remained unaccounted for. For two days, his father, Tahar Mejri, searched all over Nice for him, hoping he had survived. On July 16, he was informed of the death of his little boy and let his grief burst out on the square in front of the Pasteur Hospital.
He who, on the night of July 14, 2016, was crying over the body of his ex-wife, Olfa, lying lifeless on the English promenade, had now lost everything. According to his relatives, this deep suffering would not leave him in the months to follow.
Tahar Mejri passed away last Wednesday. The causes of his death are investigated to establish the physiological reasons for his death.
His lawyer Cathy Guittard has already announced, on Monday 17 June, that she will take legal action to ensure that Tahar Mejri is officially recognised as a "direct" victim of the Nice attack.
"He let himself die," Seloua Mensi of the association Promenade des Anges says.
"An investigation has been opened by the police to verify the causes of death. But in the eyes of the family, he died of grief. If he had not been a Muslim, he would have committed suicide," Seloua Mensi explains. She is co-president of the association for the aid of the victims of the Promenade des Anges. "He wasn't suicidal, but he let himself die, he was so empty and saddened."
"The last time my family and the members of the Nice mosque saw him was at the Eid prayer. He was wearing a T-shirt with his son on it. He always carried his son with him, it pained us tremendously to see it," Seloua Mensi tells. She lost her older sister in the attack.
Tahar Mejri will be buried next to his son in Tunisia.
RIP
Three years after losing his son and ex-wife in the Nice bombing, Tahar Mejri died. "Of grief," according to his relatives. His lawyer announced on Monday that she will take the necessary legal steps to ensure that he is recognized as a direct victim of the attack.
On July 14, 2016, four-year-old Kylan went to see the fireworks with his mother. After the Nice bombing, he remained unaccounted for. For two days, his father, Tahar Mejri, searched all over Nice for him, hoping he had survived. On July 16, he was informed of the death of his little boy and let his grief burst out on the square in front of the Pasteur Hospital.
He who, on the night of July 14, 2016, was crying over the body of his ex-wife, Olfa, lying lifeless on the English promenade, had now lost everything. According to his relatives, this deep suffering would not leave him in the months to follow.
Tahar Mejri passed away last Wednesday. The causes of his death are investigated to establish the physiological reasons for his death.
His lawyer Cathy Guittard has already announced, on Monday 17 June, that she will take legal action to ensure that Tahar Mejri is officially recognised as a "direct" victim of the Nice attack.
"He let himself die," Seloua Mensi of the association Promenade des Anges says.
"An investigation has been opened by the police to verify the causes of death. But in the eyes of the family, he died of grief. If he had not been a Muslim, he would have committed suicide," Seloua Mensi explains. She is co-president of the association for the aid of the victims of the Promenade des Anges. "He wasn't suicidal, but he let himself die, he was so empty and saddened."
"The last time my family and the members of the Nice mosque saw him was at the Eid prayer. He was wearing a T-shirt with his son on it. He always carried his son with him, it pained us tremendously to see it," Seloua Mensi tells. She lost her older sister in the attack.
Tahar Mejri will be buried next to his son in Tunisia.
RIP
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Attentat de Nice: de nouvelles pistes mènent à deux djihadistes français
Three years after the massacre, the Association of French Victims of Terrorism is calling for a hearing with two French jihadists who had discussed the attack.
Three years after the Nice bombing (86 dead, 458 injured), the investigation could take a new direction. Mandated by the French Association of Victims of Terrorism (AFVT), who brought a civil action in the case, lawyer Antoine Casubolo filed a request for evidence with the magistrates in charge of the case last May. According to our information, this approach aims to obtain the hearing of two French jihadists who have commented on the attack.
The first, Jonathan Geffroy, alias Abu Ibrahim, is a member of Daech, captured in early 2017 by the Syrian Free Army (ASL), before being handed over by Turkey to the French authorities in September of the same year. He has since been detained on charges of "criminal terrorist criminal association" and has explained at length to the police of the Directorate General of Internal Security what he has seen and heard within the Islamic State.
The second Frenchman, Adrien Guihal, 34 years old, alias Abu Osama, is currently being held by the Kurdish forces in Syria. Close to the brothers Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, Guihal worked alongside them within the terrorist organization's media apparatus.
Guihal, alias Abu Ibrahim, claims responsibility for the attack
However, in a summary note sent to AFVT, Jean-Charles Brisard, President of the Centre d'analyse du terrorisme (CAT), draws attention to the information these two men may have on the Nice attack. To date, no direct link has been established between Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the author of the massacre with the ram truck in Nice on 14 July 2016, and Daech. But the attack was claimed two days later by the jihadist organization. In particular through a newsletter read and broadcast by al-Bayan, the official radio station of EI. Adrien Guihal's voice was immediately authenticated by the French intelligence services. Guihal had similarly claimed responsibility for the murder of a couple of police officers in Magnanville (Yvelines), committed on June 26th by another French jihadist. The same thing happened on July 26th, after the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, 86 years old, by two young terrorists, in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime). Were Adrien Guihal's claims opportunistic? Or was the latter aware of the upcoming attacks?
This second hypothesis would deserve to be verified, because Guihal worked alongside the Clain brothers, responsible for Daech's propaganda in French. The CAT's summary note emphasizes: "It appears that Clain and the rest of the French in the EI media team were aware in advance of certain upcoming operations." On this basis, Mr. Casubolo asks the magistrates to issue an international arrest warrant for Adrien Guihal with a view to his indictment for "complicity in assassinations and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise", as part of the investigation into the Nice attack.
Similarly, the lawyer asks them to "proceed with the hearing of Adrien Guihal in order to shed light on the possible links between the EI and Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. Guihal, along with his wife and children, has been detained since 16 May 2018 in Deyrik prison (north-eastern Syria) by Kurdish forces. The Kurdish authorities have reportedly issued an agreement in principle in recent days to hand over the jihadist to France, in the event of an official request. Otherwise, they would not object to him being heard on the spot by a magistrate.
Geffroy, the repentant "shocked" by the attack on Nice
Jonathan Geffroy, aka Abu Ibrahim, had also spoken about Nice. He was heard in January 2018 and explained to investigators his disillusionment with Daech, "caused by external operations[the attacks], particularly after the Nice attack. Geffroy then indicated that he disapproved of the method used by Lahouaiej-Bouhlel on 14 July 2016, i. e. the attack on civilians with a ram truck.
Once again, Mr. Casubolo asks the magistrates to "proceed with the hearing of the detainee Jonathan Geffroy", in order to clarify his degree of knowledge of the attack. "These hypotheses are interesting, and they deserve to be studied and evaluated," commented Guillaume Denoix de Saint-Marc, Director of AFVT. If Adrien Guihal or Jonathan Geffroy had prior knowledge of the Nice attack, it would change the situation in this case."
During his hearings, Geffroy was particularly talkative with the investigators and the judge. He had provided a great deal of relevant information on the role of the French within Daech, as well as on the functioning of the branch of the organization in charge of external operations. Would he be likely to do the same on the Nice tragedy?
BBM
Thinking of the victims and all those left behind today.
Three years after the massacre, the Association of French Victims of Terrorism is calling for a hearing with two French jihadists who had discussed the attack.
Three years after the Nice bombing (86 dead, 458 injured), the investigation could take a new direction. Mandated by the French Association of Victims of Terrorism (AFVT), who brought a civil action in the case, lawyer Antoine Casubolo filed a request for evidence with the magistrates in charge of the case last May. According to our information, this approach aims to obtain the hearing of two French jihadists who have commented on the attack.
The first, Jonathan Geffroy, alias Abu Ibrahim, is a member of Daech, captured in early 2017 by the Syrian Free Army (ASL), before being handed over by Turkey to the French authorities in September of the same year. He has since been detained on charges of "criminal terrorist criminal association" and has explained at length to the police of the Directorate General of Internal Security what he has seen and heard within the Islamic State.
The second Frenchman, Adrien Guihal, 34 years old, alias Abu Osama, is currently being held by the Kurdish forces in Syria. Close to the brothers Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, Guihal worked alongside them within the terrorist organization's media apparatus.
Guihal, alias Abu Ibrahim, claims responsibility for the attack
However, in a summary note sent to AFVT, Jean-Charles Brisard, President of the Centre d'analyse du terrorisme (CAT), draws attention to the information these two men may have on the Nice attack. To date, no direct link has been established between Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the author of the massacre with the ram truck in Nice on 14 July 2016, and Daech. But the attack was claimed two days later by the jihadist organization. In particular through a newsletter read and broadcast by al-Bayan, the official radio station of EI. Adrien Guihal's voice was immediately authenticated by the French intelligence services. Guihal had similarly claimed responsibility for the murder of a couple of police officers in Magnanville (Yvelines), committed on June 26th by another French jihadist. The same thing happened on July 26th, after the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, 86 years old, by two young terrorists, in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime). Were Adrien Guihal's claims opportunistic? Or was the latter aware of the upcoming attacks?
This second hypothesis would deserve to be verified, because Guihal worked alongside the Clain brothers, responsible for Daech's propaganda in French. The CAT's summary note emphasizes: "It appears that Clain and the rest of the French in the EI media team were aware in advance of certain upcoming operations." On this basis, Mr. Casubolo asks the magistrates to issue an international arrest warrant for Adrien Guihal with a view to his indictment for "complicity in assassinations and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise", as part of the investigation into the Nice attack.
Similarly, the lawyer asks them to "proceed with the hearing of Adrien Guihal in order to shed light on the possible links between the EI and Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. Guihal, along with his wife and children, has been detained since 16 May 2018 in Deyrik prison (north-eastern Syria) by Kurdish forces. The Kurdish authorities have reportedly issued an agreement in principle in recent days to hand over the jihadist to France, in the event of an official request. Otherwise, they would not object to him being heard on the spot by a magistrate.
Geffroy, the repentant "shocked" by the attack on Nice
Jonathan Geffroy, aka Abu Ibrahim, had also spoken about Nice. He was heard in January 2018 and explained to investigators his disillusionment with Daech, "caused by external operations[the attacks], particularly after the Nice attack. Geffroy then indicated that he disapproved of the method used by Lahouaiej-Bouhlel on 14 July 2016, i. e. the attack on civilians with a ram truck.
Once again, Mr. Casubolo asks the magistrates to "proceed with the hearing of the detainee Jonathan Geffroy", in order to clarify his degree of knowledge of the attack. "These hypotheses are interesting, and they deserve to be studied and evaluated," commented Guillaume Denoix de Saint-Marc, Director of AFVT. If Adrien Guihal or Jonathan Geffroy had prior knowledge of the Nice attack, it would change the situation in this case."
During his hearings, Geffroy was particularly talkative with the investigators and the judge. He had provided a great deal of relevant information on the role of the French within Daech, as well as on the functioning of the branch of the organization in charge of external operations. Would he be likely to do the same on the Nice tragedy?
BBM
Thinking of the victims and all those left behind today.
April 22 2021
Italian police arrest man suspected of helping 2016 Nice attacker | Toronto Sun
This image grabbed from a video handout on April 22, 2021 by the Italian State Police shows officers escorting a man, identified only as Endri E. Photo by HANDOUT/Polizia di Stato /AFP via Getty Images
''ROME — Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested an Albanian man suspected of supplying weapons to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed 86 people in July 2016 by driving a truck through a seafront crowd in the French city of Nice.
Police said Endri Elezi, 28, was seized in the late hours of Wednesday in Sparanise, a town close to Caserta, in southern Italy. France had issued a European arrest warrant for him.''
“We believe he has been in Italy at least since the start of the year. … We are investigating possible connections between him and other people living in that area or elsewhere in the country,” said anti-terrorism agency chief Diego Parente.''
Italian police arrest man suspected of helping 2016 Nice attacker | Toronto Sun
This image grabbed from a video handout on April 22, 2021 by the Italian State Police shows officers escorting a man, identified only as Endri E. Photo by HANDOUT/Polizia di Stato /AFP via Getty Images
''ROME — Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested an Albanian man suspected of supplying weapons to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed 86 people in July 2016 by driving a truck through a seafront crowd in the French city of Nice.
Police said Endri Elezi, 28, was seized in the late hours of Wednesday in Sparanise, a town close to Caserta, in southern Italy. France had issued a European arrest warrant for him.''
“We believe he has been in Italy at least since the start of the year. … We are investigating possible connections between him and other people living in that area or elsewhere in the country,” said anti-terrorism agency chief Diego Parente.''
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Seven men and one woman will go on trial on Monday over the 2016 Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice, which saw 86 killed and hundreds injured by a gunman who drove a heavy truck into a crowd gathered to watch fireworks.
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Emotions Raw Before Nice Bastille Day Attack Trial Begins
Eight people go on trial in France on Monday accused of helping the attacker who drove a truck into a crowded beachfront in Nice on Bastille Day, killing 86 people
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Eight found guilty in Bastille Day terror attack trial
Chokri Chafroud and Mohamed Ghraieb among eight convicted of links to terrorist who drove truck into Nice crowds, killing 86
A Paris court found the driver’s friends Chokri Chafroud and Mohamed Ghraieb guilty of being part of a criminal terrorist operation and jailed them for 18 years. A third man, Ramzi Arefa, accused of helping Lahouaiej-Bouhlel obtain a weapon, was also found guilty and given a 12-year jail term.
Five others, four men and a woman, who were also on trial over links to the attack, were found guilty of being “associated with a criminal with a view to committing a crime”.