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Warsaw residents pay respects to Nice victims

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Alicja Baczyńska 15.07.2016 17:29
Throughout Friday, residents of the Polish capital have been paying tribute to 84 people killed in Thursday’s terrorist attack in Nice, southern France.
Photo: PAP/Tomasz GzellPhoto: PAP/Tomasz Gzell

Scores arrived to lay flowers and light candles at the gate of the French embassy in Warsaw.

Government representatives such as Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski and Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz commemorated the victims killed during Nice’s Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday evening.

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Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell

The Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament, Marek Kuchiński, who offered his condolences to the French authorities, told journalists: “It’s a tragedy caused by individuals guided by intentions that are incomprehensible to normal people.”

“Terrorist attacks, acts of blatant injustice and bestiality always break our hearts, particularly when the weakest fall victim – in this case children,” said Children’s Ombudsman Marek Michalak, who turned up outside the embassy to honour those killed.

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Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell

Over the next three days, Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and the city’s Śląsko-Dąbrowski bridge will be lit up in the colours of the French flag as a token of solidarity with the nation in mourning.

“The capital city of Warsaw will pay tribute to the victims of the Nice attack,” deputy mayor Jarosław Jóźwiak announced on the city authorities’ page on a social networking website.

On Twitter, former president Lech Wałęsa wrote: “It shouldn’t be this way. We commiserate with France."

Up to 84 people were killed in the attack in the southern city of Nice on Thursday evening, after a truck ploughed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.

The driver of the 25-tonne lorry sped through the city’s seafront promenade filled with revellers enjoying a fireworks display, and left a trail of bodies in his wake. Scores were killed, among them children, and hundreds were hurt, including 18 who were severely injured.

The attacker, a 31-year-old French national of Tunisian origin, also opened fire on the crowd before being shot dead by the police. (aba)

Source: PAP

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