Two arrests as it emerged the Bastille Bastard visited the scene twice with his truck before carrying out Nice terror attack
A man and a woman with links to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who drove the truck, have been arrested today
TWO more people have been arrested in the aftermath of the Nice terror attacks, as it has emerged the man driving the lorry visited the promenade twice in two days before carrying out the attack.
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, dubbed the Bastille Bastard, killed 84 people and injured 202 on Thursday when he ploughed his lorry into the crowd marking France’s national day.
The Paris prosecutor’s office last night said police had arrested a total of five people believed to be linked to Lahouaiej Bouhlel.
One was arrested on Friday and four others on Saturday morning.
Two more people, a man and a women said to have ties to the man behind the attack, were arrested this morning.
The French health minister said this morning 85 people are still in hospital after the horrific attack, 18 of those are in life-threatening conditions.
The 31-year-old Tunisian national was able to cause carnage for more than a mile along the seafront Promenade des Anglais before being shot dead by a single policewoman.
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A source close to the investigation had since said Lahouaiej Bouhlel had visited the promenade with the rented truck twice in the two days before he drove through the crowd on Bastille Day.
While he had a record of being a petty criminal, Lahouaiej Bouhlel had never appeared on the radar of intelligence services for links to radical Islam.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday the father-of-three "seemed to have been radicalised very quickly, from what his friends and family" have told police.
Several people have told police that Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, had shown signs of being religious, despite previous reports from those who knew him that he smoked, drank and never went to the mosque, said a source close to the investigation.
Since the attack France has called on young “patriots” to join the reserves to boost the security service.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: “I want to call on all French patriots who wish to do so, to join this operational reserve”
The reserve forces is made up of 12,000 volunteers between 17 and 30 years old.
Witnesses to the attack described it as "like he [Lahouaiej Bouhlel] was playing Pac-Man".
Catherine Sac-Epee, told the Mirror that she was in Nice with her husband on the night of the attack.
She said she saw the truck being driven at the crowds gathered to watch the fireworks.
She said:"It was really fast and then suddenly stopped just yards away from us.
"He looked straight at me. He was wearing a black top and was young and had muscles.
"He looked like a policeman.
"But he looked crazy, his eyes bulging, and he had jerky movement."
He husband, Dr John Phillipe, said: "It was like he was playing Pac-Man trying to eat all the people up."
In Nice, many people are still desperately looking for news of their loved ones among the dead and 121 still hospitalised.
"We have no news, neither good nor bad," said Lithuanian Johanna, who was looking for her two friends, aged 20.
Juliette Meadel, state secretary for victims' support, conceded the process was "long and cruel".
At least 10 children were among the dead as well as tourists from the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland and Germany.
As the promenade re-opened and Nice struggled to come to terms with the horror of the attack, police had questioned hundreds of people who knew the Tunisian.
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