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Agence France-Presse

French President Francois Hollande said on Friday that around 50 people were in a critical condition “between life and death” after a lorry ploughed through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.
“As I speak 84 people are dead, and around 50 are in a critical condition between life and death,” he said after visiting a hospital in the French Riviera city.
Hollande, flanked by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, said that “many foreigners” were among those killed or injured.
“There are French among the victims and also many foreigners from every continent and many children, young children,” said Hollande in a speech from a hospital in the French Riviera city.

He said the act was done “to satisfy the cruelty of an individual, and maybe a group” and that France was “facing a struggle which will be long” because the enemy will continue to attack.
“We are facing a long battle,” a haggard-looking Hollande said in a televised statement from the stricken city at mid-afternoon, in which he hailed security forces who, in a now-familiar pattern, rushed to respond to the attack.
French police said identification found with the body of the driver-assailant, who was shot dead in an exchange of gunfire, was that of Mohamed Lagouaiej Bouhlel, a French citizen of Tunisian descent described as a 31-year-old petty criminal from the Nice area. But DNA tests had not yet positively identified him.
Police in Nice identify driver of truck in attack – neighbours say he was ‘good-looking’ loner
Authorities were also poring over CCTV footage, and French media reports cited police as saying the large commercial-sized white truck used in the attack had apparently begun its journey in the hills outside of Nice, where rosemary-scented slopes spill down to meet the sea.
Rejoicing erupted on online networks associated with Islamic jihadists, but authorities said no link had yet been established between the attacker and any known group. Weapons including grenades were found in the truck, signaling that the attacker had hoped to inflict even greater carnage.
National Front leader Marine Le Pen has called for war to be declared against Islamic fundamentalism. “The war against the scourge of Islamic fundamentalism has not started, it is urgent now to declare,” she said in a statement on the party’s website. She called for action as well as compassion, and said she will put all her energy into leading the fight to “eradicate the scourge of Islamic fundamentalism”.
Additional reporting by Reuters, Associated Press


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French President Francois Hollande with Prime Minister Manuel Valls (left), Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (right) and Minister of Health Marisol Touraine as he speaks to journalists at Prefectoral Palace. Photo: Reuters

French President Francois Hollande leaves the Pasteur Hospital the day after the Bastille Day truck attack, in Nice, France, July 15, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

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