French presidential contender Alain Juppe said on Saturday the truck attack that killed 84 people in Nice could have been avoided if "all measures" had been taken, as questions mounted over failings by intelligence services. "Government intervention is imperative in that area in order to better coordinate our intelligence services," he added. A start would be the intelligence services," the mayor of Bordeaux added. A French parliamentary inquiry last week criticised numerous failings by the intelligence services over both sets of terror attacks in Paris last year. The parliamentary inquiry after the November attacks showed that," he said, referring to the report criticising France's response to the attacks.

Source: dna July 15, 2016 18:33 UTC