“I think this incident might inform our local law enforcement on how to harden our infrastructure for those larger events,” Lynch said of the Thursday night attack in Nice.
On Thursday night, a truck drove through a crowd of people gathered on the Promenade des Anglais to celebrate Bastille Day. At least 84 people, including children, were killed in the incident, which the French authorities have called a terror attack.
However, he acknowledged, “I don’t think there is any way you can answer the 100 percent guarantee that something like that won’t happen.”
The Thursday night attack occurred despite the French government declaration of a state of emergency throughout the country following the deadly terror attacks in Paris last November. On Friday morning, French President Francois Hollande extended that state of emergency for an additional three months.
