Nice attack: the trial opens before the special assize court of Paris

Barely two months after the end of the debates on the attacks of November 13, 2015, the special assize court of Paris is seized, from this Monday and until mid-December, of the Islamist attack in Nice, perpetrated on July 14, 2016. In the absence of the author of this massacre, killed by the police, seven men and one woman will be tried: three for "criminal terrorist association", punishable by a thirty-year prison sentence. criminal imprisonment, and five others, one of whom is on the run, for common law offenses (criminal association and violation of the legislation on weapons).

This extraordinary trial will first be an opportunity to relive the unbearable facts of this national holiday.

On the evening of July 14, 2016, the legendary Promenade des Anglais, the “Prom”, was filled with a joyful crowd of locals and French and foreign tourists.

At the wheel of his ram truck, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian delivery driver, killed shortly after 10:30 p.m. and…

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