The mayor of Nice denied, Thursday, any failure in the implementation of the safety system of the English walk on the evening of the facts.
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It has been five weeks since survivors and close to victims of the July 14 attack scroll before the Assize Court specially composed of Paris with their suffering but also, often, a doubt that has never left them: the device Was security on the English walk is enough? In recent days, at the helm, police officers in the streets of Nice in the evening when 86 people died there, struck by a truck, had themselves made the observation that not.
Thursday, October 20, the arrival of Christian Estrosi, on the initiative of an association of victims, had completed the courtroom. The explanations of the mayor of Nice aroused an expectation such that, in the morning, the president of the court, Laurent Raviot, had to recall that a judicial information on this subject was in progress elsewhere, and that it was not the Object of his hearing: “This trial is not the trial of the authorities. It is not the trial of Mr. Estrosi. We are not responsible for instructing a responsibility trial of the city of Nice.” L ‘Afternoon, however, that’s what we witnessed, and President Raviot himself asked the angry questions.
“Do you not think, in retrospect, that he was able to miss something in the vigilance of the public, national or municipal authorities, as for the organization of the security system?” ” He did not have a form of relaxation after Euro 2016, which had finished four days earlier? “” How could Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel were able to make a dozen passages on the Promenade des Anglais with a vehicle of this tonnage in the previous days without being controlled? “” Given the configuration of the premises, how to explain that the risk of intrusion of a large vehicle was not taken into consideration? “
debate incomplete, imprecise and tense
“A posteriori, one can always wonder why we had not imagined what was then unthinkable,” pleaded Christian Estrosi, who knew himself expected on two specific questions. The first: why, in the most videosurveillated city in France -1,836 cameras at the time, including 21 on the “prom ‘” -, were the terrorist’s locations not perceived? “There are 108,000 vehicles per day in the west-east direction on the Promenade des Anglais, and 70,000 in the east-west sense. The recurrence of these passages could not be detected in the human eye. Using artificial intelligence, algorithms that are still prohibited today, “replied the mayor of Nice, an ardent promoter of facial recognition and that of mineralogical plates.
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