On Nice's Riviera, signs of normal returning after attacks

On Nice’s Riviera, signs of normal returning after *******

NICE, France _ Joggers, cyclists and sun-seekers are back on Nice’s famed Riviera coast as signs of normal life return to the city’s famous Promenade des Anglais, where dozens were ****** in last week’s ******** Day truck ******.

Under a blazing sun, there were few visible reminders Tuesday of the July 14 carnage, save for a handful of flags flying at half-staff and a number of ***** soldiers patrolling the promenade.

Some of Nice’s beachside restaurants reopened for business, and the final section of the road was set to reopen to traffic following three days of official ********.

Nice resident Clare Spencer was determined to reclaim the city for its residents and tourists and rejected the attempt of extremists to instil fear.

“They will not take the promenade away from us,” she said. “They will not win, the evil ones…The people are back. They are in the restaurants and on the beach.”

Late Monday evening, mourners formed a human chain to remove candles, flowers and other mementos honouring the ******* of the ******, in which Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck through crowds watching fireworks.

Volunteers moved the tributes from the spots where ******* fell to a gazebo in a seaside park.

Eighty-four people were ****** in the ******. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday that 59 people were still hospitalized, 29 of them in intensive care.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, who oversees ********* investigations, said a search of Bouhlel’s computer had found a clear, recent interest in “radical jihadism,” adding that the ****** was obviously premeditated though there was no proof that Bouhlel was directed by an extremist network.

Internet searches on his computer included Islamic propaganda chants, the term “******** ****** accidents,” and stories on the recent ******* against a *** nightclub in Orlando, *******, on ****** officers in Dallas, and the ******* of two ****** officials in Magnanville, outside of Paris.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls was loudly booed Monday as he came to a memorial ceremony on the Nice shore, an expression of widespread criticism of the government’s security measures.

On Tuesday, French lawmakers are expected to ****** whether the country’s state of ********* should be extended for another three months.

Meanwhile, a mosque in the eastern Nice suburb of Ariane held prayers Tuesday for three of those ****** in the truck ******, including 4-year-old Kylan Mejri and his mother, Olfa Kalfallah, 31.

Mourners rallied around Kylan’s father, Tahar, who spoke of his grief at losing his son and wife in the ******. The imam invoked France’s founding principles of liberty, equality and fraternity before members of the community filed past the three coffins and offered their condolences to the father.

Also Tuesday, Germany’s foreign minister said two students and a teacher from a Berlin school were ****** in the *******. Another student was ******* and continues to receive treatment.

“This terrible ****** shows that ****** is directed against everyone without distinction,” said Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.






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