Estranged wife of Nice truck attacker freed

A French official in the Paris prosecutor’s office says the estranged wife of delivery man Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel — who killed 84 people on a Thursday night rampage in Nice — has been released from custody.

The woman is the mother of Bouhlel’s three children, and was in the process of divorcing him.

A police officer watches people gathering around a floral tribute for the victims killed during a deadly attack in Nice, southern France, Sunday, July 17, 2016. (AP/Laurent Cipriani)
A police officer watches people gathering around a floral tribute for the victims killed during a deadly attack in Nice, southern France, Sunday, July 17, 2016. (AP/Laurent Cipriani)

She was arrested Friday, a day after the 31-year-old Tunisian plowed through revelers out to see the Bastille Day fireworks on Nice’s famed seaside boulevard.

Investigators hunting for possible accomplices to Bouhlel arrested two people Sunday. In total, 6 people remain in custody relating to the attack that IS has claimed.

— AP

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