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Monday, 18 July 2016

Attack on Nice: French PM Valls booed at commemoration

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has been booed as he attended a minute's silence in Nice, where an attacker in a lorry killed 84 people on Thursday.
Commemorations in Nice

Hecklers shouted out "murderer" and "resign" at him before the minute's silence, held across the nation. Earlier, centre-right opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy accused the government of failing to provide security.
crowd gathering near a makeshift memorial on the Promenade des Anglais

Troops are to be redeployed to tourist spots as inquiries continue into the killer's possible links to jihadists.
Mr Sarkozy, a former president, called for any foreign nationals with links to radical Islam to be expelled from France.