Nice terror mourners create huge ‘shrine of shame’ from rubbish, rocks and ash for Bastille Bastard Bouhlel
Jeers for politicians attending memorial for allowing tragedy
MOURNERS in Nice have set up a “memorial of hate” on the spot where the Bastille Bastard was gunned down.
Some 42,000 people held a minute’s silence at the Cote d’Azur resort yesterday for the 84 people killed by the maniac trucker.
But there were also angry scenes — with litter, saliva and urine covering the area where ISIS-inspired killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, was shot dead by police.
The French Prime Minister was called a “murderer” by furious locals who said security was not tight enough for the Bastille Day celebrations last Thursday.
Passers-by shouted more insults as they stopped at the 6ft-wide “shrine of shame” for Bouhlel — which had “assassin” and the French word for “coward” scrawled across it.
A small child spat on the rubble, while a man urinated on it and a woman poured a bottle of pee over the pile.
Others swore as they passed, and some broke down in tears.
In a fit of rage one man shouted: “May you die 20 deaths.”
One woman told the crowd piling rubbish onto the “monument” that they should have more respect but she was shouted down.
Another man said of the father of three: “He was a man like anyone else. He had children. Think of them. Have some dignity.”
The angry mob shouted back and he was led away by cops for his own protection.
Elsewhere, the 1.3-mile stretch of the Promenade des Anglais — where Bouhlel mowed down revellers in his lorry — was strewn with flowers, cards and teddies.
A massive crowd observed a minute’s silence for the 84 dead before singing the French national anthem, La Marseillaise.
But they also turned their anger towards the politicians who laid flowers behind a wall away from the general public. There were shouts of “Murderers!” and “Resign!” as the PM Manuel Valls left immediately after the ceremony. One man shouted: “Where were the police? Where were they?”
The crowd then cheered the police and security personnel who were still on the promenade.
Anne Delvallet, 56, from north Nice said: “The people of Nice think that security was not good enough.
They think the government is responsible. I think this is the case too. This is the third terrorist attack in France in a year and a half.
“Nice is well known to the police, there are two dangerous neighbourhoods nearby: L’Ariane le Rouret and Les Moulins. A lot of people go to do jihad from Nice. The police should have known something was going to happen here.” Marc Mettard, 29, who travelled down from Grenoble, said: “France has lost control. We need a tougher government and more action to prosecute radicals, or there will be more attacks, more deaths.”
Valerie Cromet, 54, said she was born in the city but no longer felt safe.
She said: “I feel traumatised. This city does not resemble the place where I grew up. There are some areas now where I would not visit, but this attack was on the Promenade des Anglais, it should have been safe. These people should not have died.”
Michael Ingassia, 27, from a village just outside Nice, added: “I lost many friends in the attacks, and children of friends too.
“There was not enough security, so many people died. When you see a Prime Minister who says the security was fine, for me, this is unacceptable.”