Two years after the attack, Nice pays tribute to the victims

There was no fireworks in the sky of Nice on this National Day but 86 light beams. 86 among the victims of the attack that hit the Mediterranean city two years ago. At 22:34, the time of the attack, the sky was illuminated. But it is throughout the day, that the city paid tribute to its victims mowed by a truck on the Promenade des Anglais in the evening of July 14, 2016.

After an inter-religious ceremony Mbadéna villa and a deposit of white flowers by relatives of 86 victims, the Prime Minister presided over a ceremony with at his side the Keeper of the Seals, Nicole Belloubet and the mayor of the city, Christian Estrosi. For about an hour a minute of silence followed each other, reading the text, listing the names of the victims and depositing 86 pebbles. "Tributes follow one another, grief remains," said Edouard Philippe, "I do not pretend to console you here."

And to add: "The drama that many have lived here, and that some still live is an extremely intimate drama, it has also been a national drama.This drama we have to live with, and to live with it means not to let it go away, not to allow the foam of the days, of the news, months pbading, to erode, cover it. "

" France is Nice "

In his speech, the Prime Minister reminded France of its duty to remember victims Nice, but also address the issue of compensation for victims and the fight against terrorism. "We will fight deadly ideologies, without respite, without concessions, we will fight in the Sahel, in the Levant, where young men and women risk their lives to protect ours," insisted Matignon's tenant. streets, in front of our public places, on the occasion of each of our gatherings be they serious or festive. "

" It was important that the State and the government mark its presence by our side, France was also niçoise ", said BFMTV Christian Estrosi, ensuring that" barbarism deaf and blind "had targeted" the Nation "through Nice.

This tribute ceremony continued with a concert by the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. A performance with singer Patrick Fiori, invited by the city, in the Albert I garden. "There is a tone a little more optimistic," said Christian Estrosi. "There is of course the duty of memory which is a requirement forever because we are all inhabited by scars that will remain engraved deep within ourselves," says the Mayor of Nice, who calls for a duty towards "this a generation that has been struck by a generation of hope, a great destiny and to which we would be able to guarantee a destiny of peace and security. "