Some 30,000 people gathered on the seafront to watch a fireworks display celebrating France's annual July 14 national day when Lahouaiej-Bouhlel began his murderous rampage. The trial will take place within the historic Palais de Justice in central Paris in the same purpose-built courthouse that hosted the November 2015 attacks hearings. While Lahouaiej-Bouhlel cannot now be brought to justice, the trial - as in the November 2015 case - marks a hugely important moment for survivors and relatives of the victims. The extremist Islamic State (IS) group rapidly claimed the Nice attack, although French investigators did not find any links between the attacker and the jihadist organisation which at the time controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria. The trial, which is due to last until mid-December, is the latest legal process over the Islamist attacks that have hit France since 2015.Ī Paris court on June 29 convicted all 20 suspects in the trial over the November 2015 attacks in the French capital which left 130 dead. The others risk between five and 20 years in prison. Only one suspect, Ramzi Kevin Arefa, faces the maximum penalty of life imprisonment if convicted as a recurring offender. ![]() The seven men and one woman who will go on trial in Paris are accused of crimes from being aware of his intentions to providing logistical support and supplying weapons. ![]() The attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, was shot dead by police following the more than four-minute rampage when he zig-zagged down the seaside embankment of the Promenade des Anglais, destroying lives in his wake. ![]() Eight suspects go on trial Monday over the July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice where a radical Islamist killed 86 people by driving a truck into thousands of locals and tourists celebrating France's national day.
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