Europe Under Attack – Nice Attack, Normandy & Germany

The world has watched on in horror as the most visited country on the planet has rapidly become a hotspot for bloody terror attacks.

France has been under a state of emergency — which gives security and legal forces more power to conduct investigations and arrest suspects — for 19 months.

It was due to be lifted on July 26 after the Tour de France cycling race but has instead been extended another three months following the Bastille Day attack in the French Riviera city of Nice on July 14.

The mass murder of at least 84 people during Bastille Day celebrations has marked the third deadly terror attack in less than two years in France.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the Bastille Day attack, which saw a driver plough a truck into a group of spectators and fire rounds at them, along the famed Promenade des Anglais seafront.

The driver — believed to be Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel — drove at high speed for more than 100m before he was shot dead.
France has become disturbingly familiar with terror attacks on home soil but while there are still many questions to be answered, at the top of the list is, why?