The author of the attack has not been brought to justice because he was killed by police after the attack, which left 86 dead and more than 400 injured
Six and a half years after the attack in Nice on 14 July 2016, French justice today sentenced the eight defendants to prison terms ranging from 2 to 18 years for complicity in this jihadist attack that killed 86 people and injured hundreds. The perpetrator of the attack has not been brought to justice because he was killed by the police after the attack.
Two of the main defendants – Franco-Tunisian Mohamed Ghraieb and Tunisian Chokri Chafroud – have been found guilty of criminal terrorist association and sentenced to 18 years in prison. French-Tunisian Ramzi Arefa, who admitted to selling the gun with which the terrorist shot the police without hurting anyone, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for criminal association. The Public Prosecution Service had demanded 15 years in prison against the three main defendants. Five other defendants were found guilty of arms trafficking or criminal association and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 2 to 8 years. The Public Prosecution Service had demanded 2 to 10 years in prison for them.
The terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian living in Nice, killed 86 people with a truck and injured more than 400 people in a mass collision on July 14, 2016. The attack took place on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where some 25,000 people had gathered to watch the fireworks that traditionally close the celebration of July 14, France’s national holiday.
After the fireworks, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove onto the Promenade des Anglais in Nice in a nineteen-ton truck and deliberately ran over and zigzagged pedestrians he found in his path. The attack, which was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State, lasted 4 minutes and 17 seconds until police killed the terrorist.
The trial took place in the macro-courtroom of the Paris court, built specifically to host the trial of the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 a year ago, which killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis.
Source: La Verdad
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