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Looks like our lone wolf wasn't working alone after all but allegedly had five accomplices and planned the attack possibly over a one year period.
Nice attacker 'plotted for months and had accomplices'
Prosecutor says five suspects are facing preliminary terror charges for alleged roles in helping Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel
Floral tributes, notes and candles placed in the road for victims of the Bastille Day attack in Nice. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images
Kim Willsher in Paris
Thursday 21 July 2016 19.04 BSTLast modified on Thursday 21 July 2016 22.00 BST
The man who drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 84 people and injuring hundreds more, had help planning the attack, the Paris prosecutor, François Molins, has revealed.
Evidence from mobile phones and computer records suggested that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was not a recently radicalised “lone wolf”, as previously thought, but had several accomplices and had planned his attack for up to a year.
Molins told a press conference on Thursday that after the attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in January 2015, in which 12 people died, Bouhlel sent a text message to one suspect that read: “I am not Charlie. I’m happy they have brought some of Allah’s soldiers to finish the job.”....
Nice attacker 'plotted for months and had accomplices'
Nice attacker 'plotted for months and had accomplices'
Prosecutor says five suspects are facing preliminary terror charges for alleged roles in helping Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel
Floral tributes, notes and candles placed in the road for victims of the Bastille Day attack in Nice. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images
Kim Willsher in Paris
Thursday 21 July 2016 19.04 BSTLast modified on Thursday 21 July 2016 22.00 BST
The man who drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 84 people and injuring hundreds more, had help planning the attack, the Paris prosecutor, François Molins, has revealed.
Evidence from mobile phones and computer records suggested that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was not a recently radicalised “lone wolf”, as previously thought, but had several accomplices and had planned his attack for up to a year.
Molins told a press conference on Thursday that after the attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in January 2015, in which 12 people died, Bouhlel sent a text message to one suspect that read: “I am not Charlie. I’m happy they have brought some of Allah’s soldiers to finish the job.”....
Nice attacker 'plotted for months and had accomplices'