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July 15, 2016Strage in Nice, South of France, on the evening of the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. A refrigerated truck hit dozens of people along the Promenade des Anglais, the city's waterfront. The dead are at least 80, about a hundred injured, 16 of whom are in serious condition.



Driving bomber killed by police

The driver, who was zigzagging to hit as many people as possible, was killed by police after driving nearly 2 kilometers.



The truck that carried out the massacre on the Nice seafront crashed into the crowd at 80 km / h.

"I came close to death. I saw people crushed, bloody heads, severed limbs," said an eyewitness quoted by L'Express.

The truck, said the same man, still in shock, "was a vehicle 15 meters long and was going at 80 km per hour".

The bomber, while driving, would also have managed to shoot people who had jumped into the vehicle to try to block him from the window.



Weapons and explosives found in the truck 

Weapons, rifles and grenades were found inside the truck, sources say in Le Figaro. 



VIDÉO - # Nice06: the premières images of the scene of the drame >> https://t.co/L2WcIOrI3E pic.twitter.com/zbUs3aC3ga

- Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) July 14, 2016




It is not clear if the man had an accomplice, who in this case would still be on the run. Local authorities have asked everyone to stay at home or in any case indoors. Border controls tightened immediately.



Hollande chairs the crisis committee in Paris

French President Hollande hastily returned to Paris from Avignon to chair the crisis cell. Prime Minister Manuel Valls with him, while Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve left for Nice. Hollande will meet at 9 a small council of security and defense to face the new terrorism emergency.



Investigators: "It was an attack." For now, no claims

The Prosecutor has no doubts about the matrix: "It was an attack". The investigation was entrusted to counter-terrorism. For the moment there are no claims, but the Site has made it known


that the supporters of ISIS have "celebrated the massacre".



The attacker was from Nice of Tunisian origin

According to the website of the newspaper Nice Matin, the bomber was a 31-year-old from Nice of Tunisian origin. Immediately after the attack, a series of news circulated about a second man on the run, who also took hostages, news later denied.



Isis and al Qaeda urged: 'Drive over Allah's enemies with a truck'

"Invest them with the car". It was one of the calls to lone wolves in Europe and in the world of Isis spokesman Adnani. "Smash their head with a stone, quarter them with a knife, or run on them with


your car," urged Adnani, according to a tweet from Site, the American website for monitoring jihadist activities on the web. The Site also reports that in one of the issues of Inspire, a jihadist


magazine, al Qaeda suggested using trucks as lawn mowers, "not to mow the grass but to mow the enemies of Allah". 



The desperate escape to find shelter 

The stories of the witnesses are terrifying: the desperate escape for shelter, running among dozens of immobile bodies, bloody heads and severed limbs. Many have taken refuge in clubs, bars and restaurants. "We remained hidden for an endless time", they said "there were bodies everywhere". An Italian restaurateur saw hundreds of people enter his restaurant, all crammed into his restaurant in search of safety. Taxis have begun to charge people for free to bring them to safety.



A hundred people fished out of the sea

About a hundred people who fled to the sea at the time of the wave of panic following the attack and then jumped into the water were rescued, reports a source from the crisis cell following the situation in Nice.



Farnesina Crisis Unit Activated The Farnesina Crisis Unit

has activated a crisis number for Italians in Nice:

0039 06 36225



Attacks on #Nice: Crisis Unit activated.

Emergency number + 39-06-36225 #AttaquesNice pic.twitter.com/kH8Or23lpR

- Farnesina (@ItalyMFA) July 14, 2016



Gentiloni: Nice and Europe hit horribly

"With Crisis Unit I am following developments in the situation", writes Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Twitter



#Nice and Europe hit horribly.

With Crisis Unit I follow developments in the situation

- Paolo Gentiloni (@PaoloGentiloni) July 14, 2016