Any radicalisation of Nice attacker must have been quick-French interior minister
Speaking after Islamic State claimed the attack, Cazeneuve said France has no evidence of that from criminal record
A man covered with a towel is apprehended by French police as the investigation continues two days after an attack by the driver of a heavy truck who ran into a crowd on Bastille Day killing scores and injuring as many on the Promenade des Anglais, in Nice, France, July 16, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
PARIS:
If the Nice truck attacker who killed 84 people on Thursday was a militant, he must have become radicalised very quickly, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Saturday.
Speaking after Islamic State claimed the attacker as one of its soldiers, Cazeneuve repeated that France had no evidence of that from his criminal record or from intelligence information.
Islamic State claims Nice massacre
"It seems that he was radicalised very quickly - in any case these are the elements that have come up from the testimony of the people around him," he told reporters in Paris.
If the Nice truck attacker who killed 84 people on Thursday was a militant, he must have become radicalised very quickly, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Saturday.
Speaking after Islamic State claimed the attacker as one of its soldiers, Cazeneuve repeated that France had no evidence of that from his criminal record or from intelligence information.
Islamic State claims Nice massacre
"It seems that he was radicalised very quickly - in any case these are the elements that have come up from the testimony of the people around him," he told reporters in Paris.