PARIS (Reuters) – The truck driver who killed at least 84 people on the Nice English at Promenade 14 July had given no sign of radicalization and was known only for petty theft and violence, say the French authorities.
the act of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a Tunisian, 31, however, is the mode of action advocated by extremist Islamist organizations, said Friday the prosecutor of Paris, Francois Molins.
investigators will therefore endeavor to determine whether that profession-delivery driver was able to discreetly contact radicalized individuals or jihadists based in Syria or Iraq through social networks.
the city of Nice has become in recent years a jihadist breeding ground in a department where Islamist networks are particularly active.
Originally from the region Sousse (Tunisia), Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel lived in Nice. He was separated from his wife and three children.
Wissam, a Tunisian from the same village as the killer of the Promenade des Anglais and lives in his popular area of Nice East, said that his act had “nothing to do with Islam or Daech”, an acronym for the Islamic State (EI).
“This is someone who drinks, smokes the ‘shit’, which stealing bicycles. it is separated from his wife, he lives alone in the neighborhood “, facing the old slaughterhouse Nice converted into cultural wasteland.
” oNE DAY yOU’LL HEAR ABOUT ME “
“what happened Thursday night was that he drank with a colleague to him. They argued, her boyfriend told her ‘you are worth nothing’. It was him replied: ‘One day you’ll hear from me, “he added to Reuters TV
François Molins confirmed that the man was.” totally unknown intelligence services both at national and local, and that he had never been any record or of lesser radicalization reporting “.
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was known however for” violence, threats, theft and degradation, “he said.
According to the Minister of Justice, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, he was convicted once, March 24, to six months suspended sentence for violence with a weapon, following an altercation on the street with a motorist in January.
“the weapon in question was a wooden paddle he launched on his interlocutor, that which earned him a suspended sentence because he had never been convicted, “the minister said to the press.
the magistrate favored a judicial review that lasted two months and was arrested where the conviction occurred. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had to report to the police station of Nice once a week, which he did faithfully, and had to pay a deposit of 1,000 euros.
A Msaken, a village 120 km south Tunis where he is from, one of his former neighbors told Reuters that the alleged perpetrator of the attack had left Tunisia to live in France in 2005, after getting married.
Jabeur, the brother of Mohamed supposed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, said he did not believe that the latter is the author of the attack of Nice. “Why would he do that?”
A member of the Tunisian security services said for his part that the man had returned for the last time to Msaken four years ago and that it was not considered to have Islamist ideas.
he had received a residence permit in France over the past decade, he said.
( Gerard Bon, with France and Lara Sukhtian Service and Tarek Amara in Tunisia, edited by Sophie Louet)
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