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Trial requested for 9 suspects in France’s deadly 2016 Bastille Day truck attack

2020-06-25

[IsraelTimes] Case not expected to be heard before end of next year; 86 killed when Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel plowed a 19-ton truck into a crowd assembled for July 14 fireworks display.

La Belle France’s counter-terrorism prosecutors made a formal request Tuesday for nine suspects to face trial in connection with the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 86 people dead.

In a statement following the end of a judicial investigation, the Gay Paree-based prosecutors’ office did not disclose the identity of the suspects.

Four suspects have been charged with terrorist conspiracy for alleged links to the attacker, Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel,

...the jihad-curious French resident from Tunisia and father of three with a a taste for petty criminality, a background of psychological problems — whatever that means — and a vast acquaintance in the jihad-curious world who finally dunnit...

who plowed a 19-ton truck down Nice’s Promenade des Anglais and into a crowd assembled for the July 14 fireworks display. Bouhlel was rubbed out by French police.

Five other suspects have been charged with other criminal charges, including for allegedly providing arms to the assailant. The prosecutor’s office said they likely did not have knowledge of what Bouhlel intended to do with them.

One of these five suspects remains on the lam and is being searched for under a criminal arrest warrant.

The trial, which is set to take place at a special court for terrorist cases in Gay Paree, is not expected before the end of next year.

The Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group had grabbed credit for the July 14, 2016, attack. French authorities said Bouhlel, a Tunisian with French residency, was inspired by the holy warrior group’s propaganda, but they say no evidence has been found that IS orchestrated the attack.

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