Nice, France, attacker Mohamed Bouhlel a volatile, womanizing, alcoholic father-of-three: Neighbours
Bouhlel had had a series of run-ins with the law in France for threatening behaviour, violence and theft over the past six years. In March, he was given a six-month suspended sentence by a Nice court for a road-rage incident in which he attacked another driver with a wooden pallet.
His court-appointed lawyer, Corentin Delobel, said he observed "no radicalization whatsoever" of Bouhlel and Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Bouhlel was never placed on a watch list for radicals.
But hints of a sudden turn to religious extremism began to emerge Saturday. After the Islamic State group claimed Bouhlel as one of their own, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said told reporters the driver had been "radicalized very quickly," citing information from the five people taken into custody following the attack.
The chronology of Bouhlel's last night is still being pieced together.
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