Tag: Mohamed Lahouaieji-Bouhlel

Five detained over Nice attack to face judge

by Anne Pascale REBOUL Sophie DEVILLER NICE, France (AFP) — Five people detained after last week’s massacre in Nice are due to appear before a judge Thursday, as France is set to pass a law extending the state of emergency. The government is scrambling to reassure a jittery population after the country’s third major attack in 18 months killed 84 people out celebrating Bastille Day. Four men and one woman aged between 22 and 40 […]

Attacker staked out Nice site, accomplice suspected

by Céline AGNIEL with Pauline TALAGRAND in Paris NICE, France (AFP) — The Nice truck attacker staked out the seafront for two days before striking, it emerged Sunday as investigators pieced together details of the Islamic State-claimed massacre and questioned possible accomplices. A source close to the investigation told AFP that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, sent a text message just before the attack in which he “expresses satisfaction at having obtained a 7.65-millimetre pistol […]