DHAKA: Five suspects have appeared in court in France charged with terror offences in relation to the Nice truck attack.

The four men and one woman, aged between 22 and 40, are accused of helping driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel prepare the terror attack.

French prosecutor Francois Molins said one of the suspects returned to the scene of the attack the following day to film the aftermath, reports the BBC.

Lahouaiej-Bouhle killed 84 people when he drove into a crowd on Bastille Day.

He received logistical support for the attack from the five suspects, Molins said, and had planned the attack for several months.

Three of the suspects, identified as Franco-Tunisians Ramzi A and Mohamed Oualid G, and a Tunisian named Chokri C, were charged as accomplices in “murder by a group with terror links”.

An Albanian man named as Artan and a women who is a French-Albanian dual national, identified as Enkeldja, are suspected of providing Lahouaiej-Bouhlel with a pistol and were charged with “breaking the law on weapons in relation to a terrorist group”.

The so-called Islamic State group said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was one of its ‘soldiers’ - but the lorry driver had not been on any French police watch list.

As the Bastille Day crowd enjoyed festivities on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel carried his large white lorry towards them.

Two police officers opened fire when he mounted the kerb, but he simply accelerated and then zigzagged for up to 2km (1.25 miles), leaving a trail of carnage.

BDST: 0902 HRS, JUL 22, 2016
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