An alleged accomplice of the perpetrator of the truck attack perpetrated in the French city of Nice on July 14, 2016, was arrested in Italy, several local media announced on Wednesday.
Endri E, a 28-year-old Albanian suspected of having supplied weapons to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, shot down at the wheel of the vehicle, was arrested by the Italian police in Sparanise, near Naples.
On him weighed a European arrest warrant issued by the French justice, reported the AGI and Ansa news agencies.
The trial, the date of which has not yet been announced, will not take place before 2022.
As the perpetrator of the attack was killed while driving the truck, the special criminal court will examine the responsibilities of members of his environment and intermediaries involved in the arms circuit that were intended for him.
Endri E. is accused of “criminal association” and violation of the legalization of weapons in the “arms trafficking” chapter of the investigation.
He is accused of having provided an assault rifle to the perpetrator, through an Albanian intermediary. He would have boasted to a cousin, who accompanied him during this transaction, of having swindled the intermediary, the “hand you a kalashnikov that didn’t work in exchange for 35 grams of cocaine “, according to the investigation, consulted by AFP.
The brutal attack
On July 14, 2016, terrorist Mohamen Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a Tunisian resident of France, ran a 19-ton truck over a crowd celebrating French National Day on the Promenade des Anglais.
The brutal action killed 86 people and wounded about 450. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State.
The then French president, François Hollande, who was in Avignon, in southeastern France, returned to Paris to head a crisis committee after the massacre.
The Nice attacker suffered from an “alteration of the perception of reality, and also from a beginning of psychosis”Said a psychiatrist who treated him.
Among the testimonies of people who knew him, the doctor’s attention was drawn. Chemceddine Hamouda, who spoke to the newspaper L’Express. The doctor came into contact with him in August 2004, when the boy was only 19 years old.
According to the psychiatrist, the perpetrator of the Nice massacre was in fact seriously mentally ill.
Source: agencies.
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