JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HORROR IN NICE - THE IRREPONSIBLE PRESS IMMEDIATELY JUMPS TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT IS ORGANIZED TERROR

COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT

This is a terrible event, but the papers are all screaming "terror" immediately afterward.

This is not good reportage.

How can we possibly know?

There are madmen who do violent things without any political meaning.

Indeed, reports say the driver of the truck, who was shot, was not known to security forces, but he was a known petty criminal and had apparently been just fired from a job.