French PM says Nice atrocity attacker 'linked to radical Islam'

French prime minister Manuel Valls said the man who drove a lorry through crowds of revellers in Nice, killing 84 people, is a "terrorist linked to radical Islam".

French PM says Nice atrocity attacker 'linked to radical Islam'

French prime minister Manuel Valls said the man who drove a lorry through crowds of revellers in Nice, killing 84 people, is a "terrorist linked to radical Islam".

But prosecutors said Mohamed Laouaij Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in France, was not known to intelligence services.

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