Nice truck attack: French police arrest eight more suspects 第7週 尼斯恐攻
Who: The French authorities
When: In Bastille Day
When: In Bastille Day
Where: At French
Why: Not given
How: Not given
French authorities have made eight new arrests in connection with the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 86 people dead, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The suspects detained on Monday were French and Tunisian, the office said, and had links to the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, who ploughed a 19-tonne truck down the Promenade des Anglais and into a crowd that had gathered for a 14 July firework display.
All eight men were arrested in the south-eastern Alpes-Maritimes region, which includes Nice.
At least five people already face preliminary terrorism charges in the attack, and are accused of helping Lahouaiej-Bouhlel obtain a pistol and providing other support. It was not immediately clear what the men arrested this week are suspected of.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack. French authorities say Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian with French residency, was inspired by the extremist group’s propaganda, but they say no evidence has been found that Isis orchestrated the attack.
France remains under a state of emergency after the Nice killings and Isis attacks on Paris last year. The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said on Tuesday that the threat to France was higher than ever. He said about 300 people had been arrested in investigations into extremist networks so far this year, according to his office.
Also on Tuesday, authorities detained two boys, 14 and 17, in an investigation into a hoax hostage alert at a Paris church, the prosecutor’s office said. The false alarm on Saturday prompted a big police deployment and activation of an app-based terrorism alert system. A 16-year-old detained on Monday remains in custody.
The government is seeking financial compensation from the perpetrators for wasting security services’ time and money, and scaring the public unnecessarily.
Keywords:
authorities:當局
Bastille Day:法國國慶日
Tunisian:突尼西亞人
ploughed:著手進行
Alpes-Maritimes:阿爾卑斯濱海省
pistol:手槍
extremist group:極端組織
interior minister:內政部長
hostage:人質
custody:監禁
It’s sad to hear that such a tragedy occurred on a day which should be full of happiness and celebrations. It’s really shameful for those killers that they did this kind of brutal action. Although we haven’t had this kind of events occurred before, I still think we should be careful about what’s gonna happen in the near future.
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