Raised more than four meters high, L’Ange de labay faces the Mediterranean, on the legendary Promenade des Anglais, in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes). The statue, a slender-looking bird-man, was designed by Nice sculptor Jean-Marie Fondacaro to pay tribute to the 86 people who died in the attack of July 14, 2016, at the very place where the 19-ton truck driven by Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel stopped its deadly course at 10:34 p.m. that evening. At the foot of the monument, Maria Gullberg places a wreath of flowers, among dozens of others covering the ground.
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