French Court Sentences 8 on Trial over 2016 Truck Attack in Nice

Photos and names of the 86 victims of the July 14, 2016 truck attacks are seen on a memorial on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, August 29, 2022. (Reuters)
Photos and names of the 86 victims of the July 14, 2016 truck attacks are seen on a memorial on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, August 29, 2022. (Reuters)
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French Court Sentences 8 on Trial over 2016 Truck Attack in Nice

Photos and names of the 86 victims of the July 14, 2016 truck attacks are seen on a memorial on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, August 29, 2022. (Reuters)
Photos and names of the 86 victims of the July 14, 2016 truck attacks are seen on a memorial on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, August 29, 2022. (Reuters)

A French court said on Tuesday all eight defendants on trial over a 2016 truck rampage in the French city of Nice were guilty for their roles in the crime, in which 86 people were killed. 

Attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was shot dead by police on the spot after causing devastation and chaos on a two km stretch of Nice's seaside boulevard, where families had been celebrating Bastille Day. 

The court found Mohamed Ghraieb, the main defendant and a friend of Bouhlel, guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization. He was handed an 18-year prison sentence. 

The court also found two other defendants guilty of helping Bouhlel to obtain weapons and the truck. 



Trump Chooses Stacy Dixon to Serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)
FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)
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Trump Chooses Stacy Dixon to Serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)
FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File)

Stacy Dixon is set to become President-elect Donald Trump's acting director of national intelligence, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told Reuters.
Dixon has served as principal deputy director of national intelligence since August 2021, Reuters said.
Trump has tapped Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat, to serve as director of national intelligence, which is a position that has to be confirmed by the Senate.
The Senate has not yet scheduled a hearing for Gabbard, whose 2017 visit to Syria to meet then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and whose lack of significant intelligence experience have stirred concerns among some senators.
Dixon, who was appointed to her current post by President Joe Biden, will become the top-ranking official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence at a time when
Trump has promised to make public documents related to the killing of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump, who has long said that he believes the US government makes too many documents secret, said on Sunday that he would reverse the overclassification of documents. That job will likely fall to the next director of national intelligence, who has responsibility for reviewing classification orders.
Politico first reported Dixon's appointment.