Oh god this photo… (Eric Gaillard/Reuters) https://t.co/USCYPQ2Ql0 pic.twitter.com/xcuPYjUqke

— Emily Badger (@emilymbadger) July 15, 2016

This is probably how he wins. https://t.co/64FAtBJN7X

— Tim Stanley (@timothy_stanley) July 14, 2016

BREAKING: Christian Estrosi, president of the region, says the truck in Nice was loaded with arms and grenades.

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 14, 2016

From The Guardian:

Minutes ago the president of the Nice region, Christian Estrosi, held a press conference. He said:

This is the worst catastrophe our region has seen in modern history. We now have to mobilise all of our services, all the psychologists, volunteers who are trained to help fellow human beings.

We will work with the imams, priests and rabbis who will also join us to help the victims and families who are suffering and will probably never heal their wounds … I want to thank people who welcomed passersby and those people who show us tonight that hopefully, solidarity still exists in a world that is too egoistical and individualistic.

He added that a “high figure of the police forces” had been killed during the attack.

Early press reports emphasize that many dead bodies along the road in Nice are of Muslims. Of course we know that Islamic radicals don’t have any compunction against killing Muslims.

I don’t have time to post anything long; I’m in Atlanta about to catch a connecting flight to Baton Rouge. This news from France is unspeakable. At what point will the French people have enough, and demand radical action by their government against these evil men? I’m asking that in a straightforward way, not a rhetorical one. Sooner or later, there will be a tipping point.

Forgive me for thinking out loud about how this terrorist incident stands to affect the US presidential race, but I think Tim Stanley is probably right. Frank Beckwith, definitely not a Trump fan, said to me a few months ago that a terror attack this fall could drive people to Trump, who, as we know, will say anything. Not sure how French people can look at that photo above, of the dead child with her wubby, and resist the urge to destroy something. I remember that feeling after 9/11. It’s a very dangerous, volatile emotional state. I hope and pray that France will strike back hard and devastatingly against her enemies, but that she will not act in haste.

One of the happiest memories of travel I have is from Nice. I have been on that very promenade where those people were murdered. It is … well, I have no words. I’m sorry, I don’t. Not right now. Maybe you do. Let’s hear them.

UPDATE: From The Guardian:

Both the French TV station BFM and the local newspaper Nice-Matin are reporting that the driver is a 31-year-old with dual French-Tunisian nationality.

BFM is quoting a police source via Agence France-Presse who said an ID card had been found inside the truck. Reports say the man was a Nice resident.

We stress that none of these details are confirmed.

Shocked, shocked.

Here’s a video of the truck at the beginning of the attack. It’s not graphic, but you can see how fast he was going. The driver gunned it like this for 2 kilometers, mowing down people:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgE-MFNgDjk&w=525&h=300]