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struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 02:34 PM Jul 2016

Killer's brother tells of pre-attack call

Sun Jul 17, 2016 2:25pm EDT
NICE, FRANCE/TUNIS
BY ELENA GYLDENKERNE AND TAREK AMARA

The man who mowed through a crowd with a truck .. phoned home hours earlier and sent a 'laughing' picture from the French city, his brother told Reuters ...

"That last day he said he was in Nice with his European friends to celebrate the national holiday," Bouhlel's brother Jabeur told Reuters in their native Tunisia. In the photograph, "he seemed very happy and pleased, he was laughing a lot".

Reuters could not verify the existence of the photograph, which Jabeur declined to share ...

In a pointer to a possible accomplice, one of these seven people still held by police had received a text from the killer thanking that person for providing a weapon, a source close to the investigation told Reuters. ...


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-attacks-nice-arrests-idUSKCN0ZX04L

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Nice attacker sent text message about weapons supply struggle4progress Jul 2016 #1
French police detain more suspects linked to Nice terrorist attack struggle4progress Jul 2016 #2
Driver 'researched route' earlier in week struggle4progress Jul 2016 #3

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
1. Nice attacker sent text message about weapons supply
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 02:36 PM
Jul 2016

Angelique Chrisafis in Nice
Sunday 17 July 2016 12.38 EDT

The Tunisian delivery driver who killed 84 people .. sent a text message just before the attack about his supply of weapons.

Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, wrote of his “satisfaction at having obtained a 7.65mm pistol” and discussed the supply of other weapons, a police source confirmed to the news agency AFP. A pistol, two replica assault rifles and a dummy grenade were found in the truck ...

More than 200 investigators are working on identifying the recipients of the messages ...

Police are working to establish whether Lahouaiej-Bouhlel .. had been in contact with jihadis, or had accomplices. On Saturday, Islamic State claimed the attack, but there has been no evidence yet linking him to the group ...


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/17/nice-attackers-movements-studied-as-police-make-more-arrests-mohamed-lahouaiej-bouhlel

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
2. French police detain more suspects linked to Nice terrorist attack
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 02:38 PM
Jul 2016

Latest update : 2016-07-17

French police detained three more people in Nice Sunday ...

Two men and a woman were taken in for questioning, according to an official with the Paris prosecutor’s office .. but the official provided no details on their identities.

Seven people linked to the attacker are now being held by the police in total, according to AFP.

The driver Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s estranged wife, who had also been taken in for questioning, has .. been released ...


http://www.france24.com/en/20160717-new-arrests-nice-truck-attack

struggle4progress

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3. Driver 'researched route' earlier in week
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 02:40 PM
Jul 2016
... reports say Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove through the seafront promenade area of the French city on Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36818719
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