Nice attack trial: “I am guilty of having sold a weapon without thinking”

“What would you like to add for your defense? For the last time after more than three months of hearing, the president of the specially composed Assize Court of Paris Laurent Raviot gives the floor to the seven defendants present (an eighth is judged by default). The trial of the Nice attack, which left 86 dead and more than 450 injured on July 14, 2016 on the Promenade des Anglais, will have its epilogue with a verdict expected this Tuesday, December 13, at the end of the afternoon. The bloody shadow of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, will have haunted these sixty days of debate. The Tunisian had been shot dead by the police at the end of his murderous race, perpetrated at the wheel of a 19-tonne truck launched into a crowd of friends, families and children.