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Tonne Truck: Luxury Condos and Bastille Day

tonne truck: Roch neighbourhood, where the Rolls Royces and designer sunglasses of Nice famous waterfront seem more than a world away, according to Toronto Star. The bus follows the banks of the Paillon river, past Don Bosco High School, a prison and a slaughterhouse before letting passengers off at the gates of a garbage processing facility. By Marco Chown Oved Foreign Affairs Reporter Sun., July 17, 2016 NICE, FRANCE—It only 15 minutes on the number 4 bus from Massena square to the gritty St. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the man who killed 84 people by driving a 17-tonne truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, lived on the fourth floor of a dingy walk-up building here. Unlike Rio de Janeiro, where the impoverished favelas are on the hills, here luxury condos loom over the poor neighbourhood. His name is misspelled on the intercom. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.