‘If he’s a nobody, who do we blame?’
Ed Vulliamy
Sunday 17 July 2016 15.30 EDT
... Lahouaiej-Bouhlel comes from out of the blue. His only police record is for affray after a traffic incident, although there are reports of domestic violence. An awful truth dawns: this is not some soldier in an Islamic army, just a man with a 19-ton truck who drank and had no interest in religion but was spurred on by what prosecutors call a trail of telephonic and computer material. Ominously, this is said to include an exchange with a jihadist jailed in Nice, Omar Diaby.
If hes just a nobody motivated by this hatred, who are we to blame? Who are we to fear? asked Aymeric Carrey, who keeps a gift shop with a ribbon-draped flag in the window. No one? Everyone ? If this is Daesh, at least we know. If this is just a binational who hates us, are we supposed to fear them all? That would be preposterous ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/17/shock-mourning-nice-bastille-day-truck-attack