PARIS: A number of Arabs and Muslims were also targeted in the truck attack in the French city of Nice on Thursday, according to an Iranian journalist who was present at the scene.
Maryam Violette said she saw bodies on the ground with either the Muslim head covering or some clothing of Arab nature, according to media reports.
Many people on social media are taking her statements as evidence that the driver, a French citizen of Tunisian ancestry, was indiscriminate.
“There were so many Muslim people who were victims because I could see they had scarves over their heads and some were speaking Arabic, one family lost a mother and in Arabic, they were saying she’s a martyr,” Violette, who works for the ZananTV, told the Guardian.
At least three Tunisians and three Algerians were among the 84 people killed. The mother of a four-year-old boy, Tunisian Olfa Bent Souayah, was killed in the attack and her son is still missing, said Tunisia’s Foreign Ministry.
Two Tunisian men, Bilal Labaoui and mechanic Abdelkader Toukabri, were also killed, said the ministry.
Two children from Algeria died in the attack, said Algeria’s ministry of foreign affairs. A 70-year-old Algerian woman who was visiting her daughter in Nice was also killed, said the ministry’s spokesman.
Maryam Violette said she saw bodies on the ground with either the Muslim head covering or some clothing of Arab nature, according to media reports.
Many people on social media are taking her statements as evidence that the driver, a French citizen of Tunisian ancestry, was indiscriminate.
“There were so many Muslim people who were victims because I could see they had scarves over their heads and some were speaking Arabic, one family lost a mother and in Arabic, they were saying she’s a martyr,” Violette, who works for the ZananTV, told the Guardian.
At least three Tunisians and three Algerians were among the 84 people killed. The mother of a four-year-old boy, Tunisian Olfa Bent Souayah, was killed in the attack and her son is still missing, said Tunisia’s Foreign Ministry.
Two Tunisian men, Bilal Labaoui and mechanic Abdelkader Toukabri, were also killed, said the ministry.
Two children from Algeria died in the attack, said Algeria’s ministry of foreign affairs. A 70-year-old Algerian woman who was visiting her daughter in Nice was also killed, said the ministry’s spokesman.
