Nice-based Edinburgh woman speaks of panic following terror attack
84 people died when a lorry accelerated into a crowd last week.
An Edinburgh woman who lives with her French husband in Nice said the couple will never attend another crowded event after telling of her fear as they ran from gunfire during Thursday's attack.
Avril Cointe, who moved to the city 42 years ago when she married her husband Michel, said they are now wary of being among masses of people, after 84 were killed along the Promenade des Anglais during Bastille Day celebrations.
Mrs Cointe had been enjoying the fireworks with her husband when they heard gunshots.
She said: It was getting kind of cold so we walked up to get our scooter to go home and then heard shots. We thought it might be bangers but then we saw everyone running.
I fell over an abandoned pram as we tried to get away down a side street.
I have never been so terrified in my entire life.'' The retired secretary, 63, said she felt she had to come back to the scene to attend the minute's silence on Monday in memory of the victims, but would not go to another crowded event again.
We will never go to another fireworks display, or any crowded event,'' she said.
There is a lot of security here today.
We had to come, we couldn't not come.''
She said it is good to see holidaymakers and locals returning to the popular walkway, adding that most are probably still in shock.
She said: I think they feel they need to come and see it to believe it and try and understand it.
It's so sad. And children are among the dead. All for nothing, absolutely nothing.''