Eight convicted over Nice truck attack that killed 86 people in 2016
Eight people have been convicted for their role in a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathiser that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the driver of the truck, was killed by police on the night of the attack.
The eight defendants, seven men and one woman, were convicted of helping him orchestrate a terrorist attack.
The judge gave them prison sentences ranging from two to 18 years.
Prosecutors agreed not all of them had a clear connection to terrorism or knew what Lahouaiej-Bouhlel planned.
The pair most closely associated with Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Mohamed Ghraeib and Chokri Chafroud, were convicted of terror charges and handed the longest sentences of 18 years.
The judge’s verdict followed more than three months of testimony from survivors of the 2016 attack.
