A minute of silence will be held before tonight’s (14 July) World Cup semi-final between France and Spain to mark 10 years since the Nice terror attack that claimed 86 lives.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that the tribute will take place at the match in Dallas, which falls on the tenth anniversary of the 14 July 2016 attack.

On that day, a truck driver deliberately drove into crowds leaving a Bastille Day fireworks display on the Promenade des Anglais in the southern French city. The attack killed 86 people and injured more than 400 others.

“Before France-Spain, a minute of silence will be observed in tribute to the victims of the Nice attack, ten years after July 14, 2016,” Macron wrote on X.

He thanked FIFA president Gianni Infantino for agreeing to France’s request, adding: “We will never forget.”

The attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel (31), a radicalised Tunisian man, was shot dead by police at the scene. The Islamic State jihadist group later claimed him as one of its followers.

The Nice attack came eight months after France’s deadliest peacetime assault, when coordinated attacks in and around Paris on 13 November 2015 killed 130 people.

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