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Arabs who live in Nice painted as terrorists

NICE, FRANCE It’s only 15 minutes on the number 4 canada goose outlet miami bus from Massena square to the gritty St. Roch neighbourhood, where the Rolls Royces and designer sunglasses of Nice’s famous waterfront seem more than a world away.

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Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the man who killed 84 people by driving a 17 tonne truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, lived on the fourth floor of a dingy walk up building here. His name is misspelled on the intercom.

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Like many of France’s infamous banlieues, St. Roch is populated largely by North African immigrants and their children, and has disproportionately high unemployment and crime. Public housing makes up a third of all the apartments. Those who do have jobs tend to work in the tourist industry downtown, cleaning hotel rooms and cooking in the expensive restaurants that seat diners on terraces overlooking the sea.

At Chez Elies, a local kebab shop, a group of men hang out drinking coffee and Fanta, rolling cigarettes and listening to music through the open door of a parked car. Each one of them knew Bouhlel by sight, but said he wasn’t one to stop and chat a practice common in the tightly knit neighbourhood.

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« He was always with a new bike. He used to steal them at the beach and then bring them up here to sell, » Addali said.

« This guy had nothing to do with Daesh, nothing to do with Islam. Just beer and hashish and the gym. »

Nice is one of France’s biggest terrorist recruiting hubs. More than 50 locals have departed to fight in the Middle East, according to the Economist. Many of them were recruited by a charismatic local, Omar Diaby, who was reportedly killed in Syria last year, but may have faked his own death. There are no known links, however, between Bouhlel and Diaby.

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CCTV footage reportedly shows Bouhlel twice scouting the Promenade des Anglais, where he carried out his mass murder. French television station BFM reported that he drove slowly down the boulevard on Tuesday and Wednesday.

After tracing Bouhlel’s texts and phone calls, police arrested an Albanian couple Sunday, local press reported, bringing the total to seven, but no arms, explosives or extremist propaganda were found.

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A makeshift memorial on one of the many blood stains on the pavement along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.

Jean Yves Garino, a lawyer who acted for Bouhlel’s ex, told French television that she threw him out after he beat her. Since then, they’ve had no contact.

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« She asked for a divorce three months ago. That was the last straw for him, » he said. « He went to the beach and saw all those people enjoying themselves and he didn’t want to commit suicide alone. He’s not a terrorist, he’s a madman. »

Walid said that the Arabs who live canada goose outlet toronto factory in Nice are paying twice for the attack: first as victims and now as http://www.cheapcanadagoose.com perceived perpetrators.

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« Arabs don’t have the right to be individuals, to make choices to be good or bad. No, if an Arab kills someone, he’s not a murderer, he’s a terrorist, » Walid said.

All those gathered at the kebab shop agreed that France has a problem with anti Arab racism, and that it’s gotten worse since it first came to the world’s attention with widespread rioting in 2005.

canada goose coats Christian Estrosi, former mayor of Nice and now president of the regional government, brought in several measures widely seen to target the Arab population. In 2012, yelling, instruments and foreign flags were banned during weddings. In 2014, foreign flags were banned anywhere in public after Algeria’s World Cup victories sent celebrating youth into the streets. canada goose coats

« Our parents, our grandparents, they worked like dogs. Everyone forgets that. Now we’re all just gangsters or terrorists, » said Yacine Tabeti, 19, who was born in France to Tunisian parents.

« It’s the media as canada goose outlet winnipeg address well, reinforcing this message that Arabs can’t be trusted. Even people who aren’t racist, after years of hearing this stuff, they start to believe it. ».