Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie-Antoinette, were executed.
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie-Antoinette, were executed.
In latest European terrorist attack on French soil, a truck plowed into the crowd on Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France this evening during a fireworks show celebrating France’s Bastille Day holiday.
The truck was seen mounting the pavement and piling into anyone the driver could see, ramming over those who tried to run away.
According to latest reports, 73 people have been killed and over 100 unjured.
The ‘truck was travelling at 60-70km per hour’ a local Nice Matin journalist on the scene reported: A witness who gave his name as Antoine cited by Telegraph said: “We were at the Neptune beach and a firework display had just finished. That is when we saw a white lorry. It was going quickly at 60-70 kilometres an hour.”
The truck, whose driver was shot by the police, is shown below with its windshield riddled with bullets. It is said to have been carryng guns and grenades in what appears to have been part of a bigger plot.
