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At least 84 people have died and 52 are critical after a terrorist drove a truck through crowds in Nice.
AS ISIS officially claimed responsibility for the massacre in Nice, describing gunman Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel as a “soldier†of the group, France highlighted the “extreme difficulty†of preventing such attacks amid tough questions over security failures.
Speaking to journalists at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said overnight that the case demonstrated the “extreme difficulty of the fight against terrorismâ€.
The French government has been criticised for lax security at the show, which marked Bastille Day, France’s national holiday.
Facing its third major terror attack within 18 months, the French government is coming under fire from opposition politicians and newspapers demanding more than “the same old solemn declarationsâ€.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that, after gunmen and suicide bombings, France was now facing “a new kind of attackâ€.
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