She will not be represented. Promenade des Anges, the association of victims of the attack of July 14, 2016 in Nice, announced this Tuesday its refusal to participate in the ceremonies of homage to the victims of terrorism organized Wednesday in Paris, denouncing the presence of a senior official posted at the time in Nice.
Struck by "the fact that the demonstration was co-organized by François-Xavier Lauch, currently chief of staff to President Macron", the association recalls that he was chief of staff to the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes at the time of the attack and was placed under the status of assisted witness in the investigation of possible security breaches.
"The tribute to the victims is indeed organized by a person implicated in the Nice investigation, whose access to the documents as a civil party is denied to us by the judge due to the context electoral ”, adds the president of the association Thierry Vimal, who will meditate at the temporary memorial of Nice.
"Our fight is more and more desperate"
"We have the feeling that we are being made fun of, and that our fight for the manifestation of the truth is more and more desperate," he said.
The investigation continues into the security measures deployed on the evening of July 14, 2016. In addition to François-Xavier Lauch, the former prefect Adolphe Colrat, the mayor Christian Estrosi and his first assistant Philippe Pradal were heard as assisted witnesses.
Open for "endangering the lives of others", the investigation was widened to the classification of "homicide and involuntary injuries", more likely to lead to a trial, even if no indictment has yet been pronounced.
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