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  • Several ideas have been proposed to define the places of memories for the victims of the July 14, 2016 attack in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes).
  • Four years ago, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had killed 86 people and injured 206 people while rushing with his truck, in the crowd, who came to celebrate National Day on the Promenade des Anglais.

On July 14, 2020, the French will celebrate the Fête Nationale and in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) we will also commemorate the painful memory of the attack that claimed the lives of 86 people in 2016. It is on the way to return tribute to these victims that discussions took place this Monday between the mayor LR Christian Estrosi and the associations of victims of the attack, Life for Nice and Promenade des Anges.

With the representatives of the victims of # July 14 and the members of the follow-up committee, we discussed this morning on the organization of the ceremony of July 14, 2020 and the preparation of July 14, 2021. pic.twitter.com/w1AcJC1DYO

- Christian Estrosi (@cestrosi) June 22, 2020

Several ideas are being studied: to perpetuate the provisional memorial, currently present in the gardens of the Villa Masséna, to position an artist's work on places of memory or even to build "something" on the Promenade des Anglais, the place of the attack.

The Promenade des Anglais as a place of memory

"There must be the names of the missing persons. A stele, luminous stars… It is a place that is a place of life, but there cannot be nothing there, ”says Anne Gourvès, member of the Promenade des Anges association.

"The names must be present on the Promenade des Anglais as well as an explanatory plaque," added this mother, whose daughter, Amie, disappeared during the terrorist attack. These discussions must take shape by 2021, announces the town hall "for the fifth anniversary of the attack".

As for the idea of ​​building in Nice a memorial museum for the victims of terrorism, carried by Anne Murris, mother of Camille, one of the victims of the terrorist attack, since January 2017, it will see the light of day. But the museum will finally be installed in the Paris agglomeration, by decision of Emmanuel Macron, and its design is entrusted to the historian, specialist of the Second World War Henry Rousso. "It is a disappointment for all those who worked on this project," says Anne Gourvès.

"Sobriety" July 14, 2020

As in all the country, there will not be, in Nice, a patriotic ceremony this July 14, because of the sanitary measures related to the coronavirus which always circulates in the hexagon. But the tribute to the victims of the July 14, 2016 attack will take place "in the privacy of families," announced the mayor of Nice.

On the program for this day, family meditation at the Villa Masséna and a flower deposit. All day long, the people of Nice can come and place a rose on the memorial that is installed there. At 10:34 p.m., as every year, 86 symbolic light beams will be projected.

No fireworks are also planned, to the "great relief" of the relatives of the victims, as confirmed by Anne Gourvès. “Last year, the fireworks on July 13 instead of July 15 were violent. It did not allow us to leave Nice at that time, knowing that there is the commemoration on July 14, she explains, It is therefore a great relief.

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