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A8 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 15 July 2017

Bastille Day: Macron vows merciless fight against terror

on Bastille Day for Macron, into World War I, fighting
who traveled to Nice for and dying alongside the
a solemn remembrance French, and to French-U.S.
of the lives lost on July 14, friendship. In Nice, the hon-
2016, when a huge truck ors went to victims of the
barreled down a famed carnage last year as the
beachside promenade, city, which is considered
running over revelers await- the jewel of the Riviera
ing the fireworks display on and best known as a cen-
France’s national day. ter of carefree urban life,
The Islamic State group tries to move forward with-
claimed responsibility for out forgetting. In a deeply
the attack, though it re- moving sequence of the
mains unclear whether the day-long commemoration,
Tunisian at the wheel of the the names of the victims,
truck, a longtime Nice resi- from toddlers to a 92-year-
dent, had any formal links old, were read aloud and
to the organization. posted on a board to form
Fireworks were lighting up the shape of a heart. The
the Paris sky on Friday night sequence, accompanied
near the Eiffel Tower, but by a choir, with at least
they were banned in Nice. one member holding back
The solemnity in a city still tears, ended with a minute
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a ceremony in Nice, southern coping with the aftermath of silence.
France, Friday, July 14, 2017. Commemorations followed Bastille Day celebrations for Macron, of the attack was in sharp The reading of names un-
heading to the Riviera city of Nice for a solemn remembrance of the 86 lives lost one year ago contrast to the pomp and derscored the nature of a
when a 19-ton truck throttled through revelers feting France’s national day in a terror attack that
jolted the nation and stunned the world. display of French military threat that leaves every-
(AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani) might at the Bastille Day one a potential target and
By ELAINE GANLEY extremist attacks like the and their families present parade hours earlier in the is blind to the military power
MILOS KRIVOKAPIC one that killed 86 revelers as well as dignitaries and French capital before Ma- like that on display in Paris
Associated Press on Bastille Day in the Riviera the corps of first respond- cron’s guest of honor, Presi- in the morning.
NICE, France (AP) — French city of Nice one year ago. ers, from police to rescue dent Donald Trump. There, The Nice attack wasn’t the
President Emmanuel Ma- In a speech on the anniver- crews and hospital work- U.S. soldiers joined the tra- first to hit France, nor the
cron on Friday vowed to sary of the atrocity, Macron ers, were among those he ditional military parade, last. More than 230 people
“fight without mercy” inside said “this is what we owe addressed. Commemora- a bow to the centennial have been killed in extrem-
and outside France to end you.” Some of the victims tions followed celebrations of the entry of U.S. soldiers ist violence since 2015.q

Egypt attacks: 2 German female tourists, 5 policemen killed

By MAGGIE MICHAEL killed five policemen. had said in Arabic during a smaller Islamic militant Spring uprising.
Associated Press The motive behind the the attack, according to group known as Hasm The attacker in Hurghada,
CAIRO (AP) — Two Ger- stabbing was unclear and the official. that has been behind one of Egypt’s most popu-
man female tourists were the Interior Ministry said the Without taking any blame similar shootings in recent lar beach resorts and div-
stabbed to death while attacker at the Red Sea for what appears to be a months. ing centers, stabbed the
four other foreigners were resort was arrested imme- major security breach, the Friday’s attacks are likely tourists in the face, neck
wounded in an attack diately. Interior Ministry said the at- to further impact Egypt’s and feet, according to the
Friday at a hotel in the A security official said the tacker had sneaked into deeply struggling tourism security official.
Egyptian Red Sea resort of attacker, a man in his 20s the hotel by swimming industry — a pillar of the Two German tourists died
Hurghada, an Egyptian se- dressed in a black T-shirt from a nearby beach. country’s economy that of their wounds while four
curity official said. and jeans, wielded a knife In the killings of the five po- employs millions of people. tourists were wounded, in-
The assault came just hours and intentionally sought to licemen outside of Cairo, The industry has suffered cluding citizens of Ukraine
after a shooting near some attack foreigners. no group claimed respon- from political instability and the Czech Republic,
of Egypt’s most famous “Stay away, I don’t want sibility for the attack but and a fragile security situ- the official told The Associ-
pyramids outside of Cairo Egyptians,” the assailant it bore the hallmarks of ation since the 2011 Arab ated Press.q