(Analysis) Terror Strikes Nice: Wake-up Call for Western World to Deepening Fault Lines
2016-07-19 08:35:23 source：Eurasia Review
By Monish Gulati
July 17, 2016
"Just as France was breathing a sigh of relief and celebrating its national holiday, Bastille Day, after an incident-free Euro 2016 football tournament, terror struck in the city of Nice. A French citizen of Tunisian descent drove a large white lorry to deliberately ram crowds at Nice's Promenade des Anglais. Zig-zagging for almost 2 kms, the driver killed as many as 84 people and left scores injured some of them critically.
This attack on Bastille Day has rocked a nation that was still reeling with the aftermath of attacks in November 2015 in Paris that killed 130 and in January 2016 that killed 17. This is the third large-scale terror attack that France has suffered since Islamist gunmen attacked the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in January last year; just 18 months ago."
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