
The van after the attack
The 2016 Nice attack was an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack that occurred at 10:45 PM on 14 July 2016 when Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a large box truck through a large crowd of French civilians celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France. The man proceeded to open fire on civilians with an assault rifle, and 86 people were killed and 434 wounded.
Attack[]
At 10:45 PM on 14 July 2016, the night after the confirmed death of Islamic State commander Abu Omar al-Shishani and the same night as Bastille Day (the French version of the Fourth of July in America), Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old man of Tunisian origin, drove an eighteen-wheeler Renault Midlum box truck into a crowd of revelers in the port of Nice's Promenade des Anglais. Bouhlel claimed that he was going to deliver ice cream to the people celebrating, but he displayed suspicious behavior when he began speeding up and braking. When he backed up into a gate and tore it down, a motorcyclist tried to open the door of the truck and stop the driver, but the driver ran over the motorcyclist and began speeding into the large crowds. The truck travelled at 25 miles per hour, and it struck scores of people as they gathered for the fireworks. After hitting many people, the gunman drove near the Palace of the Mediterranean Hotel, and the police shot him dead in his truck there. 84 people were killed and 202 injured in another deadly attack in France.
Aftermath[]

The 13 July 2016 Islamic State statement threatening revenge for Abu Omar al-Shishani's death
An emergency plan was implemented immediately after the attacks; on the morning of 14 July, Prime Minister Francois Hollande had announced that the state of emergency from the November 2015 Paris attacks would expire on 26 July 2016 during the Tour de France. Because of the attack, the state of emergency was extended for three more months. The attack was Islamic State-inspired, and it came a day after the Islamic State vowed revenge for the death of al-Shishani. Images of the Eiffel Tower billowing smoke caused more fear, but police reported that the tower had been struck by some fireworks in an accident. Nevertheless, a climate of fear was created in France as the Islamic State celebrated the attacks on socaial media, and the Islamic State vowed more attacks, including an attack on Germany. The attack led to continued Islamophobia as well, with fierce arguments on online news outlets such as Russia Today (RT) involving accusations of Jewish (called "Fakekhazarjews" by an anonymous insulter), United States (called the "USraeli Empire" by the same person), the "New World Order" of the Illuminati, German, or Muslim involvement, and many commentators blamed German chancellor Angela Merkel's immigration policies on the attack (although the perpetrator was a French citizen).