French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says “terrorism will be part of our daily lives for a long time,” after the Nice truck attack.
He also says the Islamic State group could have been responsible for last week’s Bastille Day attack on Nice.
Valls, in an interview with the Journal du dimanche newspaper published Sunday, says the Islamic State group “is encouraging individuals unknown to our services to stage attacks.
While the investigation is working on details, he says “that is without a doubt the case in the Nice attack.”
People walk on the Promenade des Anglais next to flowers left as a tribute to victims of the Bastille day deadly attack on July 17, 2016 in Nice. (AFP/ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT)
IS claimed responsibility for Thursday’s truck attack that killed 84 people, but neither the extremist group nor the French government has provided concrete signs of an IS link with the driver.
Valls says only that authorities “now know that the killer radicalized very quickly.”
— AP
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