8 in France are convicted of their roles in a Bastille Day truck attack that killed 86

People look at flowers placed on the Promenade des Anglais at the scene of a truck attack on July 18, 2016, in Nice, southern France. A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with the Bastille Day attack that killed 86 people. (Claude Paris/AP)

PARIS — A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice.

The judge's verdict followed 3 1/2 months of sometimes heart-wrenching testimony from survivors of the 2016 attack, who during the trial described the horrors and carnage they witnessed that Thursday summer night and the impact on their lives since.