The Special Criminal Court in Paris handed down prison sentences to eight people involved in the Nice attack, ranging from two to eighteen years after hearings lasting more than three months. A truck crashed into a crowd in Nice on the night of July 14, 2016, killing 86 people . ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which came 18 months after the bloody attack on the French comic book magazine Charlie Hebdo and eight months after the November 13 attacks.
The court convicted Mohamed Gharib, the main defendant and friend of Mohamed Lahuaiej Buhlel, the perpetrator of the attack, of being a member of a terrorist organization and sentenced him to 18 years in prison, as well as two other defendants for helping Boulel acquire weapons and a truck.
The judges also found Shokri Shafrod and Ramzi Arafa, two other high-profile defendants accused of helping Bulel obtain weapons and a truck, guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization. Shafrod was sentenced to 18 years in prison and Arafa to 12 years.
