Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel

France: Five charged over Nice truck attack

None of those arrested were known to intelligence services, and only Ramzi A, who was born in Nice, had a criminal record, for robbery and drug offences.

France National Assembly votes to extend state of emergency for six months

France's National Assembly voted in the early hours of Wednesday to extend the country's state of emergency for six months following last week's massacre in Nice.

Being French in a country under attack: After Nice, anyone can be targeted

What's life like in France, a week after the Nice massacre? As it always was. There are people on the streets, in cafés, at work. But there is an undeniable tension in the air, hanging like an thick, invisible cloak.

Nice attack: Attacker had recently been radicalised, says French PM Manuel Valls

The man behind the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice had recently been radicalised, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in remarks published on Sunday.

Nice terror attack: Police arrests 2, detains 7

Police arrested a man and a woman in the French city of Nice on Sunday morning in connection with the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day, a judiciary source said.

Nice attack: Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was a troubled man with little interest in Islam

The man responsible for turning a night of celebration into one of carnage in the seaside city of Nice was a petty criminal who hadn't been on the radar of French intelligence services before the attack.

Nice attack: Islamic state claims responsibility, calls attacker a 'soldier'

The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed the Tunisian man who barreled his truck into a crowd in the French resort city of Nice was a "soldier" of the group, the first claim of responsibility for an attack that has claimed 84 lives and wounded more than 200 people.

Nice Attack: Who was Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the man who turned celebrations into carnage

Bouhlel was booked for petty crimes before the Nice attack but he was not on the terror watch list.

Nice terror attack suspect unknown to intelligence services, says French prosecutor Molins

The man, who rammed a truck into a crowd at a Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice, killing 84, was "totally unknown" to intelligence services, a top French prosecutor said Friday.