Italian police had identified the
gun-wielding truck driver who slaughtered over 80 people on
Bastille Day in Nice this year as having connections with the
fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood in June last year, sources
said Thursday.
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who drove a lorry into a crowd
at high speed, killing 84 and wounding 308, was ID'd by police
at the Italian border town of Ventimiglia during an
asylum-seeker sit-in on the beach rocks as belonging to an
association called 'Au coeur de l'espoir (French for 'at the
heart of hope'), which crossed the French border into Italy to
bring aid and food to Muslim asylum seekers during the holy
month of Ramadan.
That association has connections with the Muslim
Brotherhood, the sources said.
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