A French court on Thursday confirmed the prison sentences of two men who were sentenced to 18 years in jail over the harrowing 2016 terror attack in Nice that killed 86 people.
In 2022, French judges ordered prison terms for eight suspects charged in the attack in Nice, where a suspected Islamist attacker rammed his truck into a night-time crowd celebrating the July 14 national holiday.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, killed 86 people and wounded more than 450 others during a four-minute rampage on a seafront embankment before being shot dead by police.
Mohamed Ghraieb, a 48-year-old Franco-Tunisian hotel receptionist, and Chokri Chafroud, 44, an undocumented Tunisian migrant, were sentenced to 18 years for helping the attacker. They appealed their convictions.
On Thursday, the Special Criminal Court in Paris upheld their prison sentences.
Ghraieb and Chafroud provided “logistical and ideological support” to Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the court ruled.
The public prosecutor had requested a 20-year prison term for the two men.
They have five days to lodge an appeal.
The other six suspects, who were handed prison terms from two to 12 years, have decided not to appeal.
