© French police source / AFPThis image obtained by AFP on July 15, 2016 from a French police source shows a reproduction of the residence permit of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the man who rammed his truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice on July 14
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had a
long history of violence and mental illness, his family back in his homeland of Tunisia said, while insisting he showed
no obvious signs of radicalization prior to Thursday's attack that left at least 84 people dead.
"My brother had psychological problems, and we have given the police documents showing that
he had been seeing psychologists for several years," Rabeb Bouhlel, his sister, told Reuters.
The 31-year-old Lahouaiej Bouhlel left Tunisia for France back in 2005, and did not keep in regular contact with his family, who live in modest accommodations in the village Msaken outside Sousse, a coastal resort that has also been targeted by an Islamist attack.
His family, which has literally chased away the media camped outside their house on several occasions, have refused to acknowledge that Lahouaiej Bouhlel was a terrorist.
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