Attack in Nice, on 14 July 2016 a truck hurled itself into the crowd: 86 dead. PHOTO

It was 10:30 pm on July 14, 2016. The city of Nice was celebrating with a fireworks show there French national holiday on the seafront of the Promenade des Anglais when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31-year-old with dual French and Tunisian citizenship – a neo-jihadist, it will be discovered later – presses the accelerator pedal of a truck And he hurls himself on the crowd

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THE ATTACK – It is estimated that there were about that evening 30 thousand people on the street of the promenade symbol of the city. THE wounded I am 458i dead – between those who died immediately and those who after a few days, as a result of the injuries sustained – they will be in all 86, including 15 minors and six Italians. July 15 the Islamic State claims the attack

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The race of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, aboard a Renault Midlum truck (in the photo), lasts about 20 minutes and just under 2 thousand meters. After entering the pedestrian zone of the promenade with the vehicle, the bomber drives in a zig-zag way to cause the highest possible number of victims, shooting even with a firearm

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The man was then killed from the gunshots fired by the police inside the driver’s cab of the truck. From the investigations it will emerge that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, in the days preceding the attack, had gone to the Promenade des Anglais area to verify the feasibility of what he then committed on 14 July 2016

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THE LINK WITH ISIS – Isis claimed responsibility for the attack through theAmaq Agencyhis news and propaganda agency, defining Lahouaiej-Bouhlel as one of his “soldiers”

As in many similar cases, the attacker’s true affiliation with the Islamic State has been debated over the years. There are those who think that he was one of many “lone wolves“Of the ISIS

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had already been sentenced for some minor offenses. A few months after the massacre, from the interrogation of his alleged accomplices, it emerges that he used to go “regularly in Italy with bearded men, radicalized, to bring food to Syrian migrants ”

THE PROCESS – The bomber didn’t organize everything by himself. I’m eight the people which have yet to be tried for their alleged involvement in the massacre. They will present themselves in front of the judges of the Special Assize Court of Paristhe same one that ruled on the attacks in the capital on November 13, 2015

I’m three main accused – Chokri Chafroud, Ramzi Arefa and Mohamed Ghraieb – all friends of the attacker or intermediaries involved in the arms trafficking that had been shipped to him. The accusation is of conspiracy for terrorist purposes

In 2021 another man thought to be involved in the affair was arrested in Italy, in Sparanise (Caserta). He had taken refuge in the province of Campania, where he worked as a farm worker. His name is Endri Elezi.

THE ITALIAN VICTIMS – The six Italian victims are Mario Casati, Maria Grazia Ascoli, Gianna Muset, Angelo D’Agostino, Carla Gaveglio and Nicoas Leslie, Italian American (in the photo, the arrival of the bodies at Malpensa airport, in the presence of the head of state Sergio Mattarella, the mayor of Milan Beppe Sala)