On the road that separates the beach from the Albert 1st Gardens, it screams from all sides. In the aftermath of the carnage from the Promenade des Anglais, this is just one of Nice crowd gathered to honor the 84 victims of the crazy truck. Some collect, lay a wreath, a candle, a drawing. Others succumb to hysterics: “Why was the missed Why What they did, the cops They were where????” hoarse a young woman. Soon, the “place of memory” improvised, surrounded by cameras, takes on the appearance of Agora. Many people answer the question, launched in the wings. Attempt to engage the debate.
A maximum of dead shoestring
The words “insecurity”, “immigration”, “white vote” are released in the hubbub. It criticizes “Holland and her hairdresser 9000 euros.” There is the retired smooth skull and piercings teens, residents of the seaside stroll down Simba, the family labrador, tap and tourists, black faces, tanned or whiter than the hotel’s balconies meridian, located just opposite. A digest of Nice people, shaken to the depths of his identity since the attack claimed by Daech July 15, the day after the tragedy.
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Evoking the name of the bomber, Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel is like land a stab. “It is shame, seriously,” sobbed Farah Khalifa, 20 years. The Tunisian “born in Bled”, as the author of the attack, are exacerbated fears that a bit more tension, bright in Nice, between communities.
Flowers on the Promenade des Anglais, in tribute to victims of the attack of 14 July.
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the 31 year old man was unknown to the intelligence services, but the classic confusion between terrorism and Islam may well resurface. Qu it has yielded to a moment of madness or obeyed a carefully prepared script, Lahouaiej used the procedure of the Islamists, agreeing with the precept of Daech: maximum dead even with few resources
Married and a father, he had the northern neighborhoods of the city, not known to be one of the breeding grounds for local jihadism. Mekrelouf Ahmed, who intervenes from the Department of Justice as part of “FLAT” the counterterrorism program and radicalization, cites the neighborhood of Ariane, which is native Omar Diaby. This propagandist broke the exercise of the video is from Syria where he was repeatedly given to death, many young guide radicalized department.
In Nice, in front of Mohammed Laouhaiej Bouhel, the killer of promede English.
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the street of Turin, where the author lived the deadly raid of 14 July, is certainly popular, but it can not assimilate in a city like Ariane. Y resident of minor officials or retirees who can not afford the city center. life is sometimes difficult, but it does not make a home of Islamism. “This is important to say, because we should not emulate her thought patterns that do not stick to Nice, “warns immediately David Nakache
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the President of the association “All citizens” denounces however some “hysterization” debate around religion, for many years in his city. D hence the birth of real tensions “on the question of Islam, the controversy is relentless. It is very exaggerated, “laments this opposing the policy of Christian Estrosi and Eric Ciotti.
In Nice, talk about sailing, halal meat or prayer is certainly trigger a rise in the towers. Because the liability is heavy. There are about ten years, broke “the case” of the soup with pork. Recently, it is the opening of the mosque in Nour, who posed problem .
Estrosi did not want it, taxing the Salafist, denouncing funding, so-called Saudi. He finally had to accept the decision of the State Council, which advocates “backing a fundamental freedom to which an administration has brought (…) serious harm “.
But David Nakache, the damage is done. This episode has damaged the living together of Muslims Nice and non-Muslims. a boar’s carcass was filed in June in front of the Shrine. a few days later, a waitress was slapped because it served alcohol during Ramadan. “This is a small inheritance events that create a negative climate. We only talk about it in the papers, “he laments, denouncing the passage populist rhetoric and political recovery.
An identity fracture
Seated rue Saint François de Paule, close to the beach, Mohamed Houam is distraught. This son of Algerian immigrants of the first generation experienced the primary racism, insults. According to him, the damage is a different nature today. “It was 40 years ago, we suffered from racism to enter the box, go out with a girl, yes. But there were fewer stumbling blocks. What predominated, it was still the middle. We were first son of workers, there was no question of skin color. “Even less religion. Now, in Nice, the fracture is identity.
Some young people from the immigration “does not know who they are. They have no marks, feel left behind and sometimes take refuge in radicalization “, this territorial analysis attached, non-Muslim, sometimes surprising to drift:” A strength we become more racist than racist. I am scared of having some thoughts. As the creation of a French Guantánamo “laments the fifties that even includes the presence of identity in the city fringes. These” Nissarts “which have long filled the aisles of Ray Stadium, where they supported the Gym club vintage football.
Now, their representatives tend to “ranger” policent their speeches and running for political seats. Hence some dealings with the local FN.
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in his own way, Julien Blasco claims him as its niçoise identity Co-manager of the Red Kafé bar. LGBT downtown, this thirty ensures that “even more like his city” since the attack. for him, yet this tragedy could exacerbate the divide between communities, there are already underway for years.
“When I go to some of my suppliers, in the neighborhoods of the Trinity, the Ariane or Moulins, I feel insecure.” He also criticizes the fact tram, which now drains into downtown a new population coming from these neighborhoods. “There are a lot of young clans. The security has deteriorated,” he said.
He was aware of the terrorist threat before summer. More exposed than the other traders in the gay bar, he was invited to be particularly vigilant with the municipal police, who even provided him the direct line of aid stations, bypassing the standard firefighters.
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To understand why Nice has not met the challenge of the melting pot, we must consider the story of his immigration. Yvan Gastaut, historian and lecturer at the University of Nice, speaks of a dual identity town, one of which was born of a “brewing from above by elites” – the Promenade des Anglais has derived its name.
La Promenade des Anglais, where a truck crashed into the crowd on 14 July.
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Today, we find this identity in the luxury tourism, which gives the appearance of urban transit city. nationals Russian, American and Gulf countries are irresistibly attracted by the beaches triptych Spectator-shops of the French Riviera. in part for them, Nice has become a laboratory of security policies of the right, including cameras, ubiquitous, are the most conspicuous sign.
“There is another population, added the teacher, less visible after the North African immigration, Italian or Yugoslav” and pushed in neighborhoods from the urbanization of the 60 and 70. These areas, the Ariane or St. Roch, were decongest old Nice, a former slum-like cut-throat.
“Nice marked his flesh, his identity”
We are “ghettoized” poor, says Ahmed Mekrelouf. According to him, Nice has failed where Marseille succeeded: “There, a young northern districts is proud Nice, not..” The reasons? A labor pool smaller than Marseille, who lives in the Port, petrochemical and aerospace. Disadvantaged Nice, themselves, do not have the same opportunities.
The fracture is also geographical. Relegated 12 kilometers from the city center, they must cross a highway and an iron rail line for access. As if laments Ahmed Mekrelouf the word suburb ( “ostracized”) takes away all meaning.
In attacking the Promenade des Anglais, it is these two aspects of the Nice population that has attacked Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. The fireworks is a popular show, drawn on a rather posh avenue. On July 14, there were several victims among tourists but also many Nice immigrant.
Yvan Gastaut already talking about the “biggest hitch in the brewing history of the population of the city. That day will mark it in his flesh, in his identity.” Because the threat came from within. In Nice, after the period of mourning, introspection may be very long.
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