Former Mayor of Nice warned Francois Hollande that security needed to be tightened the day before the Nice tragedy
Christian Estrosi told the French President that 'our police are tired'
THE former Mayor of Nice warned Francois Hollande of the need to put into place a plan for police to improve emergency responses the day BEFORE the horrific Nice attack.
Christian Estrosi told the French President that "our police are tired" and that it was necessary to improve security within France in the letter dated July 13, 2016.
The letter, obtained by French news , also included a warning from Estrosi, who is currently the President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, that "our country will always be in unprecedented danger" if interior security was not improved.
He said the risk of an attack had increased due to the current social climate.
The severe letter suggests to the President that police officers needed to be able to conduct identity checks saying, "while we face a situation of increased risks, our officers cannot ask for ID when even a vendor can do that in their store."
Estrosi followed up the release of the letter with a series of tweets, asking whether France would be mourning in another six months after another tragedy.
He said: "Why in a pedestrian area was there not more ways to prevent this tragedy?"
Questions have also been raised over French security and President Francois Hollande after a third terror attack on the country in only 18 months.
Presidential contender Alain Juppe said the truck attack that killed 84 people and injured more than 200 in Nice on Thursday night could have been avoided.
The former right-wing prime minister said: “I am not an investigator. (But) if all measures had been taken, the tragedy would not have happened.”
Mr Juppe, who is currently the mayor of Bordeaux, then added: “Of course more must be done and done better. A start would be the intelligence services.”
On January 7 last year, 12 people were killed after two terrorists stormed the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, armed with assault rifles.
On November 13, a series of co-ordinated attacks in the city left 130 people dead, including 89 as they watched a concert inside the Bataclan theatre.
Mr Juppe, who is a leading contender to be the right’s candidate for the presidency in 2017, said he “was not seeking to blame anyone at this stage, naturally”.
