Eight people involved in the Nice bombingin Francereceived sentences ranging from two to eighteen years in prison after being found guilty of the attack, which killed 86 people in 2016.
On July 14 of that year, a truck rammed into the crowd attending the fireworks display in Nice, in the middle of the French National Holiday. The attacker advanced for two kilometers until he was shot down by the police.
Hundreds of people were injured in the attack, which was claimed by Islamic State.
According to French justice, all those who received sentences were tried for their proximity to Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the author of the attack, or for arms trafficking.
Chokri Chafroud and Mohamed Ghraieb were sentenced to eighteen years in a French prison for terrorist criminal association. The Prosecutor’s Office initially claimed fifteen years of sentence for both.
“The court is strongly convinced that the perpetrator of the attack (…) had been associated with Mohamed Ghraieb and Chokri Chafroud, both in determining and in carrying out” the attack, said the president of the court, Laurent Raviot.
Ramzi Arefa, on the other hand, will have to serve twelve years in prison for criminal association and arms trafficking, but the terrorist character against him was dismissed. The 28-year-old man acknowledged giving Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel a semi-automatic pistol, but the court considers that “there are no elements to determine whether he knew the jihadist determination” of the attacker.
The rest of the defendants received sentences of between two and eight years in prison, being considered guilty of arms trafficking or criminal association. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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