Aussie wrote on Jul 18
th, 2016 at 7:31pm:
Quote:100's of thousands apparently sent thru contacts to his family in tunisia.
Link?
His Old Man lives in Paris, doesn't he?
The terrorist behind the Bastille Day atrocity was radicalised within months and sent his Tunisian family £84,000 just days before the massacre, it was claimed on Saturday.
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's brother in Tunisia described receiving the fortune in cash as police swooped to arrest five suspected associates across the city of Nice
The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said the attacker "appears to have become radicalised very quickly" as one neighbour of his estranged wife added: "Mohamed only started visiting a mosque in April."
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, pictured in Nice, France
Bastile Day attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, pictured last year in Nice, France CREDIT: MATRIX
Investigators examining Bouhlel’s phone records found evidence that he was in contact with known Islamic radicals.
However, an intelligence source cautioned: “That could just be a coincidence, given the neighbourhood where he lived. Everyone knows everyone there. He seems to have known people who knew Omar Diaby (a known local Islamist believed to be linked with the Al Nusra group close to Al Qaeda)."
Jaber, brother of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel
Jaber received money from his brother, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, days before the attack CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
Relatives have reportedly claimed Bouhlel, in the days before the attack, persuaded friends to smuggle the bundles of cash back to his family in their hometown of Msaken, Tunisia.
His brother Jaber also said he had not seen his brother for several years and the money had come as a complete surprise.
Five people thought to know Bouhlel were still being questioned by police this afternoon, including his estranged wife who went to a police station of her own accord.
Among those arrested was Ramzie Arefa, 22, at his family apartment on Rue Marceau, about a mile inland from where the deadly attacks took place on July 15.