Italy police ID'd Nice attacker in 2015

(ANSA) - Genoa, July 28 - 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.