They face sentences ranging from five years to life in prison for their alleged cooperation in the massive attack that killed 86 people and injured 400.
Six years after the attack in Nice on July 14, 2016, France is bringing to justice the eight alleged accomplices of the Tunisian jihadist who killed 86 people with a truck, including 15 children, and injured more than 400 in a mass outcry on the day of the national gala. vacation.
The terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian resident of Nice, was murdered by the police, so he cannot be tried. His alleged accomplices, who were involved to a greater or lesser extent in the attack, face sentences ranging from 5 years in prison to the maximum prison term of life if found guilty.
Claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, the attack took place on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where some 25,000 people gathered to watch the fireworks that traditionally end the 14th anniversary celebrations. July, a French holiday.
The fireworks show ended when Lahouaiej-Bouhlel sowed terror. He entered Paseo de los Ingleses with a 19-ton truck and deliberately ran over and zigzagged over the pedestrians he found in his path. The attack lasted 4 minutes and 17 seconds until the police killed the terrorist.
The trial will take place in the courtroom of the Paris Court, which was built specifically to host the trial of the terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015, which killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis. Among the witnesses who will testify are former French President François Hollande and former Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. The trial is expected to last three months and the sentence will be announced on December 16.
The attack shocked the people of Nice. “This wound will never close, regardless of the outcome of the trial. This wound is too deep,” the city’s mayor, Christian Estrosi, told Le Point weekly.
Source: La Verdad
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