A French court has finally handed down a conviction in connection with that 2016 Nice terrorist attack, ultimately charging seven men and one woman for their roles in that horrible night.

 
A French court has finally handed down a conviction in connection with that 2016 Nice terrorist attack, ultimately charging seven men and one woman for their roles in that horrible night.

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

The attack, which came just eight months after a deadly Islamist militant assault on the Bataclan music hall in Paris and France’s national stadium, profoundly shocked the country and beyond, hitting one of its most famous tourist spots.

The mass killings of 2015 and 2016, the worst bloodshed in France since World War Two, were followed by a number of attacks claimed by Islamist militants, but none on the same scale.