Nice Killer’s Motives Remain Mystery as Investigators Seek Links
- Islamic State calls Bouhlel ‘soldier’; doesn’t claim plotting
- Interior minister says Bouhlel radicalized ‘very quickly’
Forensic police investigate a truck at the scene of a terror attack.
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Until he murdered 84 revelers on Bastille Day, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel’s most serious run-in with the law was throwing a wooden plank during an argument with another driver.
“There was nothing in his past that could have foreseen the acts he’s now accused of,” Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas said on RTL Radio.