French police don’t definitely identify Nice truck attacker


The French police are holding back from definitively identifying the truck driver responsible for 84 deaths on the Nice promenade was Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31. Papers in that name were found in the truck which he rented on July 11. Investigators are still examining the body of the driver who was shot dead by police at the scene of the attack.  Western intelligence sources identify Bouhlel as having been trained by ISIS in Libya for large-scale terror operations, but French officials deny that he ever came to the notice of French intelligence,

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