Respect to Nice Victims: French Prime Minister was booed for failure to prevent terror attacks

The French Prime Minister was booed as he visited Nice in the aftermath of the terror attacks. 

As Manuel Valls made his was to the scene where Mohamed Bouhlel mowed down 84 people on the promenade during the Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday night, some of the crowd voiced their anger.

He was jeered by large portions of the thousands of people who had turned up to pay their respects in the coastal city.

Valls and his government has been criticised over the last 18 months for not doing enough to stop terror attacks in the country, following the Charlie Hebdo attacks last January and the Paris massacre in November.

Talking last month the French Prime Minister insisted the country is doing all it can to foil terror plots but admitted 'more innocents will lose their lives'.

 He said the intelligence and police services had stopped 15 attacks since 2013 and were waging a non-stop battle to track down and prevent terrorists.

Speaking on French Inter radio, Mr Valls said before the Euros: 'We need to tighten the net and give police and intelligence services all the means they need, but we will witness further attacks. 

'More innocents will lose their lives.'

 The Bastille Day terrorist sent a series of chilling text messages just minutes before his deadly attack on the Nice Riviera - delighting in his last minute preparations for the atrocity.

 The revelation suggests drug-crazed Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was not a ‘lone wolf’ and had at least one helper.

 The 31-year-old sent the message at 10.27pm on Thursday saying: ‘Bring more weapons, bring five of them to C.’ An earlier message said: ‘It’s good. I have the equipment,’ French TV reported.

 The 31-year-old sent the message at 10.27pm on Thursday saying: ‘Bring more weapons, bring five of them to C.’ An earlier message said: ‘It’s good. I have the equipment,’ French TV reported.

 The significance of ‘C’ was unclear but Bouhlel had hidden two pistols, ammunition, imitation machine guns and a grenade in the lorry cabin. He launched his attack at around 10.45pm.

 Bouhlel had asked for the 'heaviest truck' available when he rented the 19-tonne vehicle and had spent two days driving up and down the Promenade des Anglais working out how to cause the greatest amount of damage.