Five suspects charged, held over Nice attack
The Nice attack truck driver Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel left 84 people dead during Bastille day celebrations
French judges on Thursday charged five suspects who were in contact with truck attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel in the lead-up to the Nice attack that left 84 people dead, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
Three of the suspects were formally accused of acting as accomplices in “murder by a group with terror links,” the prosecutor’s office said. Another two were charged with “breaking the law on weapons in relation to a terrorist group.”
All five have been remanded in custody.
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