PARIS - French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday that the man responsible for the attack in Nice in which 84 people died seemed to have been "radicalised very quickly". Cazeneuve said that the father-of-three "seemed to have been radicalised very quickly from what his friends and family" have told police. He also confirmed that 31-year-old Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel "had not been known to the intelligence services because he did not stand out... by being linked with radical Islamic ideology". As the minister gave the first insights into the investigation, French President Francois Hollande called for national unity after a meeting of top security advisors and ministers at the Elysee Palace. Via his spokesman, Hollande said that in the face of "these attempts to divide the country... we should remember the unity and cohesion of the country around our values."

Source: Bangkok Post July 16, 2016 12:22 UTC