WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Seven men and one woman will go on trial over the 2016 Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice. Eighty-six people were killed and hundreds injured by a gunman who drove a heavy truck into a crowd gathered to watch fireworks
The gunman, responsible for one of the deadliest massacres in peacetime France, was shot dead by police on the spot, ending an assault that shocked a country already reeling from the Islamist attacks in Paris the previous year.
Islamic State claimed responsibility a few days later, but offered no proof that the attacker, who had a record of domestic violence and petty crimes, had direct contact with the group. The main threat came from radicalised individuals living in France, he said, adding that some 780 radicalised foreign individuals had been deported in the last four years.French police forces and forensic officers stand next to a truck July 15, 2016 that ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday on the Promenade des Anglais killing at least 60 people in Nice, France, July 14, 2016.
Three of the accused, allegedly close friends of the attacker, are accused of participation in a terrorist criminal association for helping him obtain weapons and the truck. Two of them face 20 years in jail, while the other faces a life sentence.
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