Terrorism: ten years later, the Nice attack remains engraved in the memory of residents

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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