48 hours after the massacre perpetrated on the Promenade des Anglais, which left at least 84 dead and over 200 injured, the profile of the author of this murderous attack, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, begins to s’ flesh. From his youth in Tunisia to his stormy marriage, through his criminal record and a supposedly express radicalization, Libération is the point.
What is the path of Mohamed Bouhlel?
Born in January 1985, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was from Msaken, a town south of Sousse (Tunisia). Very few elements have filtered through his youth in his native country. Just do we know that the man was married there ten years with H., a girl the same age as him, a native of Nice.
The couple begins life common in France in the 2008 surroundings It is in any case at this time that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel would have received a temporary residence permit under private and family life, according to a document published on the Internet.
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What is personality?
soon the marriage of couple, who have three young children and lives north of Nice, is deteriorating. “It was misery to his wife” says Karim (the name was changed at the request of the interested), resident of his old neighborhood. Acts of violence are reported to authorities. Several handrails have been filed, and a complaint prelude to divorce proceedings would be ongoing. The relatives of his ex-wife say Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was little present for his family. Others describe a man given to drinking and fickle, capable of fits of anger and violence. “It was really weird stuff , slipping Karim. He urinated and defecated in her apartment. Once he also hit his stepmother. “ All describe a ” crazy “, ” borderline psychiatry “. Nothing to see, in any case, with the behavior of his wife’s family, popular in the area.
After his separation there about two years, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel leaving the district “Bateco” to that of the old slaughterhouse, east of Nice. In a building with yellow facade of three floors, it lives on the first. Jasmine, who lives on the ground floor, says that the individual never returned his greetings. “His eyes frightened me. He stared at me. I even told my children not to answer. “ For most former neighbors that Libération could meet Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was primarily solitary figure of a man, which would be almost gone under the radar of the company. All cling to almost insignificant details of his diet ( “He loved bologna” , “He bought tradition baguettes” ) to his love life ( “He loved women” ).
Even with Tunisia, his country of origin, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel seems to have maintained links. Interviewed by several media, his father spoke of the difficult period through which his son between 2002 and 2004. “There have been problems that have caused a nervous breakdown. He became angry, he shouted, he broke all there before him. “ He said his son had ” no connection with religion. ” “It was not the prayer, he did not fast, he drank alcohol, he even drugged” , he recounted. A description corroborated by his former neighbors: “He drank, ate pork, never went to the mosque , they point Nothing to do with Islam.”.
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What was he doing in Nice?
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel working for a transport company in the Plaine du Var near Nice. “It was the delivery of packages on a pallet , says Karim. It’s called messaging. I am a driver myself, it’s a job where you are alone, where gamberge much. Either one puts his ideas in place or are moved, it depends on his personality. It can quickly become paranoid, according to who you are. “ In the residence of his former partner, people regularly saw his green truck parked in the parking lot. ” But for three months, it was not longer the case, “, says Murad, another former neighbor. When he still lived here with his wife, residents sometimes crossed, with her children, not really argue with him. “It was hello-goodbye, it was all” , takes Mourad, who described a man “weird, nasty.”
just entertainment known to this big man seem to be weight training and boxing, specifically the MMA – Mix Martial art – also called a combat sport free fight where almost all shots are allowed. “He was very concerned about his appearance” says a former neighbor. Otherwise, not much. No regular bar, no friends or relations known for now. Near his new apartment, the young baker remembers a taciturn man, from twice daily, morning and evening, buy bread that simply meant a hand gesture. “When I passed him outside, he spoke quickly to me, just hello , he said. But it never came to sit at the terrace.”
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does A criminal record?
The criminal record of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel shows only a few lines, “two or three references, no more” says Corentin Delobel. This lawyer the Nice Bar had defended last March, when he was found after an altercation at the wheel. Mohamed Bouhlel was then sentenced to six months suspended sentence for attacking another motorist with a plank of wood pallet, following an argument that had gone wrong.
of office clerk, the lawyer describes a man “in the reserve, a little nonchalant, at least that minimized his actions and knew that this case would not go very far” . Nothing in his behavior, he says, had seemed suspicious at the time. “He showed no signs of any psychological disorders.” His client was certainly violent: before the March conviction, he had been dealing with justice for acts of domestic violence and committed theft from 2010.
But nothing in these crimes, not announced the extent of the violence to which it is delivered in the evening of July 14. The public prosecutor of Paris also said Friday that the thirties was “totally unknown intelligence” and was under no reports for any radicalization (including through a plug S).
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has he radicalized “very quickly “?
Asked about RTL, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, the Minister of Justice, said the criminal past of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel boded ” nothing acts with which he is aujourd ‘hui accused. He never did jail, never! “ However, the claim of the attack made by Daech Saturday suggests that the author of the deadly attack of July 14 could have links with terrorist organization, so recent and tenuous they may be. The investigation will shed light on this aspect, the first investigations having for the time revealed no will, or posthumous claim allegiance to the Islamic State.
According to the Minister of inside, Bernard Cazeneuve, “it seems that [Lahouaiej Bouhlel] will be radicalized very quickly,” . According to World , these elements have emerged questioning five people held in police custody since the attack Thursday evening near the madman. The newspaper “some interesting names appeared among his contacts. Another source suggests common relations with Omar Diaby, a figure of jihadism Nice to al-Nusra, not IE. “
Asked by Libération Corentin Delobel, counsel for Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel during his last visit to court in March, is categorical: “there was no speech, no reference” may suggest that was in a process of radicalization. “As we see, this is not the image he gave” , he said. Karim, the former neighbor, is even more direct: “If he is a terrorist, I am Obama! This guy farted a cable. “ A unique profile for police officers involved in the fight against terrorism, which could pose new challenges.
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