- Title: Barcelona van attack strikes painful chord in Nice
- Date: 18th August 2017
- Summary: NICE, FRANCE (AUGUST 18, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BEACH AND PEOPLE IN SEA PROMENADE DES ANGLAIS, WHERE ISLAMIST MILITANT KILLED 86 IN TRUCK ATTACK ON JULY 14, 2016 (SOUNDBITE) (French) NICE RESIDENT, JEAN-CLAUDE WAGNER, SAYING: "Anywhere... it's the ease. I mean, if you want you rent a car for 200 euros and then you kill a dozen people." PEOPLE ON PROMENADE DES ANGLAIS (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOURIST FROM NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND, MICHAEL GOULE, SAYING: "Yes, it has a meaning because it's in your heart from last time it happened here. And then you see this thing happening again, so vivid you know, and so many people were hurt, so many people killed. You just wonder why these people want to do this?" VARIOUS OF PEOPLE AT BEACH NEWSSTAND FRENCH DAILY NEWSPAPERS "LIBERATION"'S FRONT PAGE READING (French): "TERROR ON LAS RAMBLAS" FRENCH NEWSPAPER "AUJOURD'HUI EN FRANCE"'S FRONT PAGE READING (French): "BARCELONA, TOURISTS ONCE AGAIN TARGETS OF TERRORISM" FRENCH LOCAL NEWSPAPER "NICE-MATIN"'S FRONT PAGE READING (French): "TERROR ON LAS RAMBLAS" (SOUNDBITE) (French) NICE RESIDENT, NICOLAS POPOVIC, SAYING: "Listen, what it does to me is that it's very painful... because when we see that, we remember what happened here last year." PEOPLE IN STREET (SOUNDBITE) (French) NICE RESIDENT, BERNADETTE DIAZ, SAYING: "It reminded me of July 14th (2016). It is... I... I don't know, I can't say."
- Embargoed: 1st September 2017 13:30
- Keywords: Barcelona van attack Nice truck attack July 14 Bastille Day Christian Estrosi Nice residents reacting
- Location: NICE, FRANCE
- City: NICE, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,International/National Security
- Reuters ID: LVA0016UOPOHZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
Residents and tourists in Nice were in shock on Friday (August 18) after van attacks killed 14 in Barcelona, Spain.
On Thursday (August 17), a van mowed through crowds of people in Las Ramblas on Barcelona's most famous avenue and a similar attack in Cambrils left a total of 14 people dead.
The attack brought back painful memories to Nice's residents and tourists, serving as a reminder of similar events which occurred in the French Riviera city the previous year.
On July 14 2016, a truck attack on the world-famous 'Promenade des Anglais' killed 86 people on Bastille Day, France's national holiday.
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi honoured the Spanish attack victims in a ceremony, and called for increased money and powers to improve security in cities. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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