Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s truck rampage left 86 people dead in 2016
The attacker’s bullet-riddled truck is removed from the scene in Nice, where the terrorist attack killed 86 people. Photograph: Andrew Testa/The New York TimesA French court on Tuesday convicted seven men and one woman for their roles in a 2016 truck rampage in the Riviera city of Nice in which 86 people were killed, a verdict that seeks to close a bloody chapter in French history.
The attack, which came just eight months after a deadly Islamist militant assault on the Bataclan music hall in Paris and France's national stadium, profoundly shocked the country and beyond, hitting one of its most famous tourist spots. Instead, they were found guilty of providing weapons to Lahouaiej Bouhlel and being aware that he was radicalised, but not of actually helping him plan and carry out the attack.
“It won’t make my family come back, I’ll have to live with that until I die, but these are little victories that heal,” Caroline Villani, who lost four relatives including a son who was about to turn 17 years old, told Reuters.“It's not because public opinion and accusers expect exemplary punishment that you should necessarily hand them out,” Vincent Brengarth said.
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