The attacker who killed 84 and injured 202 others, was allegedly “bisexual” according to reports after gay hook up apps were found on his phone.
Tunisian born, French National, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel killed 84 people and injured 202 more in the city of Nice last Thursday when he ploughed a hired truck into crowds of revellers celebrating Bastille Day on the French Rivera.
The attack happened just a month after the gun attack on a gay night club in Orlando.
According to a number of reports, the 31-year-old attacker had used gay hook up apps on his phone before his own death, when the city’s police shot him at the end of the rampage.
Although no evidence has been found to suggest that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel committed the massacre on behalf of the Islamic State, (ISIS), the terror organisation claimed the attack as theirs, saying that he was a “soldier” for their cause.
According to leaked reports, investigators found Lahouaiej-Bouhlel’s phone to have gay and straight hook up and dating apps installed, with a number of topless selfies.
The Daily Mail have reported that one of Lahouaiej-Bouhlel’s lovers was a 73-year-old man.
ISIS have zero tolerance for gay and bisexual men. Men who are found to be having homosexual relationships are most often executed. They are usually thrown off a multi-storey building in front of a crowd, who then stone the victim to death if he has survived the fall.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel’s family confirmed that he was not particularly religious saying that he often ate pork, got drunk regularly and did not observe Ramadam. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that investigators were working on the assumption that he had been radicalized very recently and quickly.
The attack in Nice is the third terrorist event in France in 18 months.
The first of which was the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices, the second was in a supermarket two days later, both in Paris – and then in November when 130 people were murdered in coordinated attacks across the French capital.