‘If he’s a nobody, who do we blame?

‘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 he’s 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