France

More arrests after a stop at the nice

Five suspected accomplices of the assassin of nice seats already in custody, the police has arrested two more men. The search for additional supporters, meanwhile continues.

Investigators circles, the two men were on Monday already in custody. The authorities were still trying to make it possible logistical supporters of the attacker to locate and find out if he had other accomplices, it said.

Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had at 14. July on the beach promenade of nice
with a load of 84 people killed before the police shot him. In the last week, the Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins had said that the 31-Year-old bomber had planned the attack for months.

Five alleged accomplices already in custody

The previous estimates, according to
the man had five accomplices have been detained. Three of them of accessory to murder are accused in connection with an act of terrorism, and two more have played in the procurement of his gun a role.

The terrorist militia “Islamic state” (IS) claimed the attack and said the offender was one of his “soldiers”. The French authorities have, however, not evidence for a connection of the Tunesiers to the radical Islamic militia.

rk/ml (afp, dpa, rtr)