
On Saturday morning, the French police arrested three more people in the case of a terrorist attack in Nice, reports Reuters. Their names are not yet called, the police were clarified, we are talking about people from the "close environment" of the terrorist Muhamed Bulel.
About 40 fighters of special forces of the French police took part in one of the detentions.
The French authorities are still trying to determine whether the Bulela acted alone or with accomplices and whether his motives were connected with radical Islam.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State took responsibility for the attack. The message about this appeared on the page in Telegram AMAQ, which transmits news on behalf of the militants. The terrorist report says that the attack was committed by a “soldier of IG”, who answered the call to attack citizens included in the anti -terrorist coalition of countries.
On Saturday, a meeting of the France Security and Defense Council under the chairmanship of the President of the country Francois Hollande is held on Saturday in the Champs Elysees.
The day before, a meeting of the Security and Defense Council was also held. According to its results, the upcoming extension of the state of emergency in France was announced for another three months.
On Thursday evening in Nice, the truck drove at high speed into the crowd of people who celebrated the day of the capture of the Bastille on the English embankment. According to eyewitnesses, the car managed to drive around the crowd about two kilometers before the police shot his driver.
As a result of the actions of the criminal, 84 people were killed, including the deputy head of the city police. 202 injured during the attack were delivered to the city hospitals. 52 of them are in critical condition, another 25 are in intensive care rooms.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, during the terrorist attack in Nice, Russians Viktoria Savchenko and Natalya Otto were killed. Two more compatriots are currently missing. Russian citizens Polina Serebryannikova and Galina Sokolova with injuries are in the hospitals of Monaco and Nice.
In France, a three -day nationwide mourning was declared in memory of the victims of the attack in Nice. Hollande in contacting the nation stated that the terrorist nature of the attack cannot be denied.
US President Barack Obama ordered on Friday to drop state flags on the White House and government institutions to honor the memory of the victims of the attack. President of Russia Vladimir Putin made condolences.
The personality of the police terrorist managed to establish quickly enough - on fingerprints and documents left in the cabin in the cabin. 31-year-old resident of Nice with double Franco-Marcanic citizenship, Bulel-a native of Tunisia. The man worked as a driver in the courier service. He had drives to the police, including due to the manifestation of violence, but he was not suspected of extremism. His name did not appear among the dossier with the stamp "S", which in France marry the affairs of potential terrorists and their accomplices.
The police have reason to argue that the actions of the Bulela were planned in advance. This is indicated by the fact that the truck on which the attack was made, he leased in one of the communes near Nice a few days before the tragic events. A search was in the house of Bulela. His ex -wife was detained.