"91% of the victims (of the Nice attack) have received an offer of compensation, 76% have accepted a final settlement"
, said the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, on Wednesday during an interview with the daily
Nice-Matin
to be published on Thursday.
"The guarantee fund has paid 92 million euros in compensation
," said the Keeper of the Seals, who will represent the government on Thursday in Nice for the commemorations of this attack which left 86 dead and some 400 injured on the evening of 14 July 2016 on the Promenade des Anglais.
“A total of 2,500 victims were taken care of. For 215 people, the amicable compensation procedure continues. These are in particular minor victims whose state of health is not consolidated”
, added the minister in this interview.
On July 14, 2016, around 30,000 people gathered on the Promenade des Anglais for the traditional fireworks display.
It was in this crowd that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 30-year-old Tunisian living in Nice, drove a 19-tonne truck, mowing down dozens of people for two minutes, before being shot dead by the police.
The trial of this drama will take place from September 5, before the special assize court in Paris.
The main responsible having died, the magistrates will examine the responsibilities of eight other people, members of his entourage or intermediaries involved in the trafficking of weapons which were intended for him.
At least 865 people or associations (Memorial of the Angels, Promenade des Anges, Life for Nice, Fenvac) have joined as civil parties.
Referring to this trial, the minister considered that
“justice is a kind of confiscation of the right to revenge”
:
“After such a trial, the victims come out a little less badly.
(…) We respond to this barbarism with the law”
, he pleaded.