It will spread its wings facing the Palais de la Méditerranée, where the ram truck had stopped its mad course.

"The angel of the bay", a sculpture imagined by Jean-Marie Fondacaro, will be inaugurated on the promenade des Anglais on July 14, 2022, as part of the commemoration of the sixth anniversary of the attack of July 14, 2016, in announced this Friday the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi.

The three victim associations Promenade des Anges, Mémorial des Anges and Life for Nice have chosen it among fifteen proposals by artists to pay tribute to the 86 people killed by the terrorist.

“I know that the choice turned out to be difficult, but that after several rounds of discussion, this project achieved consensus and received unanimity,” explained Christian Estrosi.

The structure, 4.16 m high and which will be made of brushed cast aluminum and stainless steel, represents an angel on the crest of a wave.

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