Time.news – The investigators of the State Police have identified and the accomplice of the perpetrator of the terrorist attack committed in France in Nice on 14 July 2016 was arrested in Italy.
The men of the Digos State Police of the Naples and Caserta police stations, activated by the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police and with the collaboration of the Postal and Communications Police Department of Campania, arrested Endri Elezi, 28 year old Albanian citizen hit by a European arrest warrant issued by the French authorities because he was held responsible for supplying weapons to Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, author of the terrorist attack committed in Nice.
The man was located in Sparanise (Caserta) developing information transmitted by the Central Directorate and the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police.
In 2016, July 14, the date of the storming of the Bastille, a French national holiday, became the day of the most serious massacre to hit the city since the postwar period. It was 10:34 pm when the crowds on the Promenade des Anglais, shortly after the fireworks ended, were mowed down by a 19-ton truck launched at 90km / h, zigzagging to kill as many people as possible and leave no escape for those who tried to take refuge on the sidewalk.
At the helm was the 31-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, one of the many Islamic extremists who in the recent past have bloodied European cities. People “fell like skittles,” the horrified survivors said. First a cyclist who tried to get into the cockpit and then a motorcyclist who threw his vehicle in front of the wheels tried to stop him. To block the mad rush, which lasted two kilometers and three minutes, was the police who fired at the cockpit of the vehicle, inside which explosives and weapons were later found. 84 dead remained on the Promenade, including 14 children, and 434 wounded, 52 of whom were in serious condition. Two more people would later die from their injuries, bringing the final toll to 86 victims.
A year later, not only dozens of injured still suffered the consequences of the damage suffered but 3,000 survivors, witnesses and relatives of the victims were still forced to resort to psychiatric treatment to heal their inner scars, tormented by insomnia and panic attacks.
Two days later ISIS allegedly claimed responsibility for the massacre, perpetrated in a manner that was repeated several times, in Berlin on December 19, 2016, in London on March 22 and June 4, 2017, in Stockholm on April 7, 2017. Like many others disciples of the caliphate, Lahouaiej Bouhlel did not have a past as a devout Muslim. According to Francois Molins, the titular magistrate of the investigation, the young man, with more than one criminal record, had recently radicalized, had started attending the mosque a few months ago and, after his divorce from his wife, due to frequent domestic violence, he had led a profligate life marked by alcohol and drug abuse. The bombing, Molins explained a week after the massacre, had nevertheless been planned for some time, as the material found in the 31-year-old’s phone would prove.
Almost five years after the massacre, however, the questions remain many. Who accompanied Lahouaiej Bouhlel on his path of radicalization? Who had helped him prepare for the attack? Who had provided him with the weapons? The arrest in Sparanise of the 28-year-old Albanian Endri Elezi may perhaps provide some answers.
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