The terror attack in Nice, France, which took the lives of 84 people after a Tunisian born man drove through a crowd on Bastille Day, is being called a “truck crash” by MSNBC.
Even after the incident was determined to be deliberate and the identity of the perpetrator was discovered – 31-year-old local Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel – the media outlet continued to portray the attack as though it were accidental.
Tune in to @MSNBC for continued live coverage of the deadly truck crash in Nice, France: https://t.co/FdX3z4hq8V pic.twitter.com/X6J2ENQJk4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 15, 2016
As reported by Infowars in the aftermath of the attack, other left-leaning news organizations made similar statements in an apparent attempt to distance the attacker from his horrific actions.
A large number of news groups including The New York Times, CNN and TIME outright blamed the entire terrorist attack on the truck itself.
Children feared killed in Nice as truck attacks ‘family event’ https://t.co/aXdopT3e4T pic.twitter.com/0Yid2ImcWk
— CBC News (@CBCNews) July 15, 2016
84 dead in France truck attack https://t.co/fDq9SuxGCi
— TIME.com (@TIME) July 15, 2016
What happened in the truck attack in Nice, France https://t.co/OztgVbWo58 pic.twitter.com/HjEYeiJW3Z
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 15, 2016
A tweet from the Hill even appeared to suggest that the truck autonomously drove into the crowd without a driver.
Dozens dead after truck drives into crowd in Nice in #BastilleDay attack https://t.co/Sr0W04WCDh pic.twitter.com/0KTRvbSWVw
— The Hill (@thehill) July 15, 2016
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