Paris/Tunis: The Tunisian attacker who killed 84 people in Nice on Thursday had been seeing psychologists for several years before he left Tunisia for France in 2005, his sister said.
"My brother had psychological problems and we have given the police documents showing that he had been seeing psychologists for several years," Rabeb Bouhlel, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's sister, told Reuters.
'Any radicalisation of Nice attacker must have been quick'
If the Nice truck attacker was an Islamist militant, he must have become radicalised very quickly, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
Speaking after Islamic State claimed the attacker as one of its soldiers, Cazeneuve repeated that France had no evidence of that from his criminal record or from intelligence information.
"It seems that he was radicalised very quickly - in any case these are the elements that have come up from the testimony of the people around him," he told reporters in Paris.
(with agency inputs)
