Seeing Berlin attacked, Nice relives truck rampage horror

Nice retiree Caroline Barbier can’t bear to watch the Berlin news at all. “This brings back too many memories. We need time before we can go through all this” again, she said.

A surge of visitors has come to a memorial site to pay respects to those killed in Nice following this week’s attack in the German capital which killed 12. The site, a bandstand near the Promenade des Anglais, is covered in stuffed animals, notes and flags from around the world.

A couple from nearby Cannes, Franck et Joelle Ribal, visited for the first time this week, prompted by the Berlin attack.

“We are not safe anywhere. This happened in Berlin, in Nice, next in Cannes or in Turkey or anywhere else, we don’t know,” said Joelle Ribal, an entrepreneur.

Security is tight at the Nice Christmas market, but that is not deterring many residents.

“We force ourselves to go out, to show that we are not afraid. We have to continue to live despite of all this,” said Pierre Tedeschi.

Five months after the Nice attack, some of the injured are still recovering and many questions linger about the attacker, his motives and how many others might have been involved.

Nine people have been handed preliminary charges in the investigation, though it’s unclear if they knew of driver Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s deadly attack plan. Bouhlel himself was killed by police.

Margaid Quioc, The Associated Press

by Canadian Press

Seeing Berlin attacked, Nice relives truck rampage horror

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