(AFP) Seven men and a woman will stand trial in France for alleged links to the perpetrator of the 2016 attack in Nice that killed 86 people when he rammed a truck into Bastille Day revellers.
The three main suspects, Mohamed Ghraieb, Chokri Chafroud and Ramzi Arefa, will be prosecuted for “criminal association” with the 31-year-old attacker, Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.
The three, two Tunisians and one French-Tunisian, are accused of having had prior knowledge of an attack, according to the charge sheet seen by AFP on Tuesday.
But investigators found no evidence that they had known the exact details of Bouhlel’s plan, for which reason they were not charged with the more severe crime of “collusion.”
