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French court convicts all eight suspects over 2016 truck attack in Nice

This file court-sketch made on September 5, 2022 shows a general view of the courthouse in Paris during the opening day of the trial of suspects over the 2016 Nice truck attack which killed 86 people and injured over 400. © Benoît Peyrucq, AFP

A French court on Tuesday ordered prison terms for eight suspects charged in the harrowing 2016 terror attack in Nice, where a suspected Islamist attacker ploughed his truck into a crowd celebrating the July 14 national holiday.

Two men were given the most severe sentences of 18 years behind bars for helping Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian resident, prepare an attack that killed 86 people and injured over 450 in a four-minute rampage on a seaside embankment in the southern city before being shot dead by police.

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