According to the daily Libération , no national police were present at the entrance to the pedestrian area of the Promenade des Anglais. Indeed, the staff of the Interior Ministry were stationed 370 meters below.
A few days after the Nice attack that left 84 dead, suspicions about security holes accumulate. Wednesday night, the daily Libération published a survey that no police officer was present at the entrance of the security perimeter when the terrorist Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel crashed into the crowd at the wheel a truck of 19 tons. The information is all the more controversy it contradicts the statements of Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, and the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture, and seems to support the former mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi.
the current president of the Association immediately after the killing, put in effect because the government’s responsibility. “I want to understand how the truck was able to return in the pedestrian area” had he publicly questioned. The mayor of Nice has subsequently accused the government of failing to ensure the safety of this popular area the evening of July 14, and he had not mobilized sufficient national police. The government, he assured that the municipal services were fully aware of the safety device as they participated in preparatory meetings with the prefecture. In a statement of 16 July, it explains: “The perimeter mission was entrusted to the most sensitive points of the crews of the national police, reinforced crew of the municipal police. This was particularly true of truck entry point with an access ban materialized by the positioning of vehicles blocking access to the road. The truck forced their way uphill on the sidewalk. “
The first national police were stationed at more than 370 meters after the entrance to the pedestrian area.
the prefecture thus ensures that the beginning of the pedestrian zone, which starts at the junction with rue Gambetta, was blocked at Meyerbeer by police cars to avoid a possible forced passage. A confirmed release that same July 16 by Bernard Cazeneuve: “The national police were present and very active on the Promenade des Anglais”, and “police vehicles made it impossible to cross the Promenade des Anglais,” he said before to affirm that it is “by sidewalks and very violently,” that the terrorist was able to reach the pedestrian area. Prime Minister Manuel Valls also denied any failure of state services Tuesday at the Palais Bourbon, “I will never accept the shameful about who insinuate that all this could have been avoided, as saying this is discrediting our security forces who are fighting every day and get results. “
However, the version published by Libération on Wednesday involves securing the perimeter at Gambetta. Saying reccueilli have numerous testimonies, daily, supporting photographs taken before the tragedy, shows that only two municipal officials were present at the entrance to the Promenade des Anglais, placed in the middle of the road behind two security gates. Coated with a yellow vest, they are posted in the middle of numerous cars. No trace of staff of the National Police in this area, all were “raised to 20.30 around by their municipal colleagues,” says Libération . In fact, they were increased to 21 hours. No national police car is no longer present at the entrance of Gambetta access point.
The first national police are stationed at more than 370 meters to the east, in the heart of the pedestrian area, where concerts are held. “It was never intended that this be advanced at the Gambetta area, point of deflection of traffic and visual control by municipal police, where there was no festivity, are we pounding in the Minister’s entourage. Meyerbeer, located ten meters upstream animation, marks the beginning of the scope of the event Prom Party, as Acte in the protocol signed by the mayor and the prefecture. But it is indeed the entrance to the pedestrian area which have never stopped talking Bernard Cazeneuve and the department prefect. It is as if we are reproached for not having locked the Rue de Rivoli at the Louvre while a party stands Place de la Concorde. “
But, according to a police source quoted by Libération , a single city police car was present in the middle of the floor, sea side, Gambetta. It would belong to the municipal officials, but would not have been able to block passage.
“This information confirms what Christian Estrosi stressed from the beginning”
Specifically, the municipal police had to provide, according the minutes of the Prefecture of July 7, 42 field officers to ensure security in the evening of 14 July, 16 more than in 2015. They were positioned at strategic locations at 20h30. Clearly, if the place of operations is one that had been planned by the prefecture, it is not the one described by the Place Beauvau. In addition, the number of police were “forced”, notified in his account prefecture from July 7.
Joint Wednesday by Le Figaro Eric Ciotti, deputy of Alpes-Maritimes and president of the county Council, said that this information confirms the accusations of the former mayor of Nice on the lack of police resources, “that’s always what Christian Estrosi said. He also asked today that the General Inspectorate (the “police of the police”, Ed) is seized, “he said. Asked about the fact that the information relates unless the number of police deployed as access to the Promenade des Anglais, the member having responded “hard to say”, “I was not involved in the organization this device, nor on one side or the other. ” As for the responsibility of the government involved in this controversy, “there is an ongoing investigation, it is to her to decide,” he said.
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