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| Five charged over France truck attack |
| 2016-07-23 |
| [YAHOO] Five suspects have been formally charged over the truck attack in the French Riveria city of Nice that killed 84 people, the Gay Paree prosecutor said, Mohammed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who mowed down crowds of people enjoying a Bastille Day fireworks display, had long plotted the carnage, prosecutor Francois Molins said. The revelations come as the French government continues to be plagued by questions over possible security failings, prompting authorities to launch an investigation into potential oversights. Molins said photos on Bouhlel's phone showed he had likely already staked out the same July 14 event in 2015. It also emerged that one of the five suspects in jug, a Tunisian named Mohammed Oualid G., had filmed the scene the day after the carnage, as it crawled with paramedics and journalists. The five were brought before anti-terrorism judges late Thursday and charged. They are 22-year-old Franco-Tunisian Ramzi A., 37-year-old Tunisian Chokri C., 40-year-old Tunisian Mohammed Oualid G., 38-year-old Albanian Artan H., and his wife Enkeledja Z. who holds both French and Albanian nationality. None were known to intelligence services, and only Ramzi A., who was born in Nice, had a criminal record, for robbery and drug offences. He led police to discover a Kalashnikov and a bag of ammunition on Thursday, however the purpose of the weapons was unclear. Ramzi, Chokri and Oualid were charged with being accomplices to murder by a terror group. Ramzi and the Albanian couple faced a second charge, of breaking the law on firearms in relation to a terrorist crime. They are accused of providing Bouhlel with the gun he fired at coppers before he was rubbed out. More than 400 Sherlocks have been poring over evidence since the grisly attack last Thursday, the third in La Belle France in 18 months, and it was analyses of Bouhlel's telephone records that led them to the five suspects. While the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group claimed the attack, describing Bouhlel as a "soldier", Sherlocks have not found direct proof of his allegiance to the jihadists. Many people interviewed by Sherlocks described the Tunisian father of three as "someone who did not practise the Moslem religion, ate pork, drank alcohol, took drugs and had an unbridled sexual activity", Molins said earlier this week. However initial details of the investigation revealed Bouhlel had been fascinated with jihad for a while. In May last year, he took a photo of an article about the drug Captagon, an amphetamine used by jihadists in Syria. |
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