French PM booed at Nice tribute event

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was booed in Nice on Monday before and after the minute of silence for the victims of the deadly Bastille Day attack.

Shouts of “Murderers!” and “Resign!” rang out as Mr Valls and two ministers left the seafront where a huge crowd gathered to remember the 84 people mowed down on July 14 by truck driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.

Emotions in France have been running high since the 31-year-old Tunisian rammed a 19-tonne truck into a crowd leaving a fireworks display, leaving a trail of crumpled bodies in his wake.

In reaction, Mr Valls on Monday condemned as “disgraceful” the boos he endured while attending the tribute event. He said the jeers and calls for him to resign reflected the “attitude of a minority” in the city run by the Opposition Republicans party.

Meanwhile, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Monday that Bouhlel had a “clear, recent interest in the radical jihadist movement”, confirming the attack was “premeditated”.

Investigations showed the Tunisian had searc-hed on the internet for information on a terror attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando and the Paris suburb of Magnanville — where a police couple were killed In June.

Mr Molins said the attack was “of a premeditated nature.”

Bouhlel staked out the site of the carnage in Nice, the Promenade des Anglais, on several occasions, took selfies there throughout the day of the attack and had reserved the rented truck on July 4.

Since July 1, he had also made several internet sea-rches for “horrible fatal accident” and had on his computer violent images “linked to radical Islam”.

Investigations also sho-wed he had grown a beard eight days before the attack, telling people “the meaning of this beard is religious”.

Authorities believe Bouhlel was radicalised very quickly, as he had never shown signs of religious fervour until recently.

According to Molins, the attacker drank alcohol, ate pork, took drugs and engaged in “unbridled sexual activity.”