Nice attack: truck
driver named as France
Nearly 24 hours after a Bastille Day celebration was transformed
into a nightmare, “locals and visitors returned to the Promenade des Anglais to
lay flowers for the dead and to wonder exactly how, and why, the unthinkable
had come to pass,” my colleague Sam Jones reports from the city.
Throughout Friday, impromptu shrines had sprung up along the
metal barriers that closed off the promenade. From one hung a tricolor with a
black ribbon sewn on to the white central stripe. At another, a picture of
Buddha watched over a dozen small candles. Someone had left a cigarette lighter
and more nightlights on the ground so others could light candles and offer
prayers.
Madame Bourmault, who lives two minutes from the promenade, came
to one of the shrines with a bunch of flowers in her hand and tears in her
eyes.
“I can’t sleep and I can’t breathe. It’s just horrible,” she
said.
“What else can you say?” She had been down by the firework
display on Thursday night, and seen a sudden tide of people screaming and
running away. “In a fraction of a second, the music stopped and there was a lot
of screaming. Everyone was running and no one was helping.”
On Bormault’s mind was a question that many around the world are
asking: how had the truck managed to get on to the promenade? “It’s normally
closed to traffic,” she said. However, she did not blame the police. “I don’t
know what else the police could have done, but I don’t understand how the truck
got in.”
She added: “You can’t put a policeman behind everyone - and
there area lot of crazy people in this world.”
網址:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/14/nice-bastille-day-france-attack-promenade-des-anglais-vehicle
when:24 hours after a Bastille Day celebration
what: celebration was transformed into a nightmare
key words:
atrocity殘暴;殘酷
transform改變
unthinkable難以想像的
impromptu事先無準備的
shrine神殿;聖壇
spring up突然出現;迅速成長
barriers 障礙
promenade散步場所;海濱人行道
tricolor三色旗
a fraction of 一小部分
