The 31-year-old Tunisian delivery driver who ploughed a heavy truck into a crowd gathered to watch fireworks on the Nice seafront on Bastille day 2016, killing 86 people and injuring more than 400, would not have been able to commit the atrocity without the “precious help” of three friends, the court has heard.
After weeks of harrowing evidence from the bereaved and survivors of the second-most deadly massacre in peacetime France, who described the screams, bloodshed and sound of bones breaking, lawyers for the families began their summing up on Wednesday.
