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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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(118,032 posts)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
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(118,032 posts)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 prosecutors 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 Bouhlels estranged wife, who had also been taken in for questioning, has .. been released ...
http://www.france24.com/en/20160717-new-arrests-nice-truck-attack
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(118,032 posts)http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36818719