Par Lila Bruandet
Published on 1 Jul 22 at 14:07
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It is an evening that remains and will remain forever in the memory. This evening of July 14, 2016, when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in Nice, drove into a crowd of civilians gathered on the Promenade des Anglais, driving a heavy truck.
The attack is claimed on July 16 by the terrorist organization Daesh. The trial will be held from September 5, 2022 at the Paris Court of Appeal.
86 dead and 458 injured
The attack took place around 10:30 p.m., shortly after the end of the traditional July 14 fireworks. At the wheel of a 19-tonne truck, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel enters the Promenade des Anglais, at Magnan, forces the police barrier and goes up the south sidewalk (sea side) for 1.7 km.
The assailant was slowed down for the first time, at the Negresco hotel, by a man who tried to enter the driver’s cabin by leaning on the truck’s step. In vain.
The driver shoots several times at National Police officers, who retaliate, before definitively neutralizing the vehicle at the Palais de la Méditerranée, and shooting the driver. A total of 86 people lost their lives and 458 people were injured.
In the courtroom of the November 13 trial
Seven men and one woman are sent back to the special assize court, three of them for criminal association with terrorism. Collective14-7 Lawyersmade up of around forty lawyers from Nice, represents more than 400 civil parties.
The trial is to be held from September 5, 2022 until mid-November. The courtroom that will host this case will be none other than the one that has just seen the trial of the November 13 attacks come to an end.
Specially built for this extraordinary trial on the ground floor inside the Paris court, it was originally to be dismantled. The Paris Court of Appeal finally announced that it would be used in September for another extraordinary trial: that of the attacks of July 14, 2016.
The trial broadcast in Nice
During the three months of trial, it will be broadcast in Nice, in a space specially equipped for the reception and support of people affected by the event.
The Mediterranean area of the Acropolis Palace will be fitted out with two rooms: one for the public, with a capacity of 500 seats, the other for journalists, with a capacity of 200 seats.
It will also be possible to follow the trial remotely, as for the trial of November 13, thanks to a web radio, which will also be accessible from abroad.
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