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This would be bizarre if the results hadn't been so tragic 
Nice Attack: Has a Bisexual Muslim Hustler Put France on the Path to Civil War?
Nice Attack: Has a Bisexual Muslim Hustler Put France on the Path to Civil War?
PARIS — What French investigators found on the phones of the Muslim murderer who slaughtered 84 people on the promenade along the sea in Nice, France, on Thursday night should not be surprising.
But it was.
The cops were looking for imams. What they found were johns.
It turns out Mohamed Mondher Larouaeij Bouhlel was “a hustler,” as one senior member of the French security establishment told The Daily Beast. He was inclined to have sex with any gender, and, according to a report in Le Parisien, which has strong law enforcement sources, his most devoted client/lover was a 73-year-old man.
The profile of Bouhlel, 31, that has emerged from leaked reports of his cellphone contacts and police interrogations with his acquaintances is not just of a troubled young immigrant from Tunisia living in France, it’s of a midnight cowboy on the Côte d’Azur, depressive, confused, filled with rage.
None of which means Bouhlel did not, in his last days, choose to identify with the terrorist organization that calls itself the Islamic State, or perhaps with some affiliate of al Qaeda. “Being unbalanced never kept anyone from being a jihadist,” David Thomson, author of a book on French jihadists, told the local daily newspaper Nice-Matin.
At a press conference in Nice on Monday, Paris prosecutor François Molins, who oversees terrorism investigations, said that despite a vague claim by the Islamic State that Bouhlel was inspired by its propaganda, there was still no clear link. There is no black flag, there is no letter, there is no video testament from the “martyr.”
On the other hand, Bouhlel planned the attack at least several days in advance. He had arranged to rent the refrigerator truck on July 4, picked it up on July 11, drove it around the Promenade des Anglais, the scene of the crime to come, on the 12th and 14th, the day of the attack, and even took selfies of himself there.
He had started to let his beard grow before the massacre and had been searching the internet for the pornography of violence: “horrible deadly accidents” or “shocking videos, sensitive souls refrain.” He had watched ISIS decapitation videos.
Bouhlel appears to be, indeed, part of a new genre of terrorist, the instant jihadist who decides more or less suddenly to turn his shitty little life into a world-famous spectacle of death. There are many people like that to be exploited. As the French daily Le Monde noted in its profile of Bouhlel, “triggering from a distance the morbid impulses of fragile individuals is an integral part of the strategy of [ISIS].”
But it was.
The cops were looking for imams. What they found were johns.
It turns out Mohamed Mondher Larouaeij Bouhlel was “a hustler,” as one senior member of the French security establishment told The Daily Beast. He was inclined to have sex with any gender, and, according to a report in Le Parisien, which has strong law enforcement sources, his most devoted client/lover was a 73-year-old man.
The profile of Bouhlel, 31, that has emerged from leaked reports of his cellphone contacts and police interrogations with his acquaintances is not just of a troubled young immigrant from Tunisia living in France, it’s of a midnight cowboy on the Côte d’Azur, depressive, confused, filled with rage.
None of which means Bouhlel did not, in his last days, choose to identify with the terrorist organization that calls itself the Islamic State, or perhaps with some affiliate of al Qaeda. “Being unbalanced never kept anyone from being a jihadist,” David Thomson, author of a book on French jihadists, told the local daily newspaper Nice-Matin.
At a press conference in Nice on Monday, Paris prosecutor François Molins, who oversees terrorism investigations, said that despite a vague claim by the Islamic State that Bouhlel was inspired by its propaganda, there was still no clear link. There is no black flag, there is no letter, there is no video testament from the “martyr.”
On the other hand, Bouhlel planned the attack at least several days in advance. He had arranged to rent the refrigerator truck on July 4, picked it up on July 11, drove it around the Promenade des Anglais, the scene of the crime to come, on the 12th and 14th, the day of the attack, and even took selfies of himself there.
He had started to let his beard grow before the massacre and had been searching the internet for the pornography of violence: “horrible deadly accidents” or “shocking videos, sensitive souls refrain.” He had watched ISIS decapitation videos.
Bouhlel appears to be, indeed, part of a new genre of terrorist, the instant jihadist who decides more or less suddenly to turn his shitty little life into a world-famous spectacle of death. There are many people like that to be exploited. As the French daily Le Monde noted in its profile of Bouhlel, “triggering from a distance the morbid impulses of fragile individuals is an integral part of the strategy of [ISIS].”
