French Prime Minister booed after attack in Nice

The mood on France has clearly changed since the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher killings in 2015. Previously terror attacks in France brought the country together. Then after the horrific attacks in Paris last November President Francois Hollande was criticized for not acting more decisively after the earlier attacks. But there was still some semblance of unity.

But in the wake of the Nice massacre there is no feeling of French unity.

According to the BBC," Today we have all the leaders of the centre-right opposition opening fire at Francois Hollande and his supposed failings in the "war against terror". The former President, Nicolas Sarkozy, accused the incumbent of having a "hand that trembles". In an interview on Sunday, he said that "all the things that should have been done in the last 18 months were not done".

His rival Alain Juppe - a man normally much more cautious than Mr Sarkozy - said pretty much the same: "If all the right steps had been taken, Nice would never have happened."

Most outspoken was the former mayor of Nice. He is an ally of Mr Sarkozy. Christian Estrosi accused the government of lying over the number of police officers protecting the Bastille Day crowd and he says there were too few on duty.

"The people today do not feel any sense of national unity," he told Le Point magazine. "The government can't get away with it now for the third time, with all the political forces rallying around."

The earlier attacks shocked France into feeling a sense of unity, but the sheer horror of Nice showed that mass terror is no longer something out of the ordinary. And that is beginning to make people very angry.

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