Truck terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel demanded the 'heaviest and most powerful' lorry from a rental company so he could kill the maximum number of people, the garage boss has revealed. The manager of Via Location told of the moment she came face-to-face with the ISIS killer when he hired the tonne lorry which became a weapon of mass murder. We are all very shocked.
We all live in Nice and are thinking of the families. The ISIS killer collected the deadly lorry from the Via Location premises pictured in a rural village surrounded by farmland about 30 minutes west of Nice. The manager of Via Location recalls the moment she came face-to-face with the ISIS killer when he hired the tonne lorry.
The vehicle was towed away after Bouhlel used it to kill more than 80 people during the Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday evening. At about pm, Bouhlel pictured drove the lorry towards the crowds of pedestrians with its headlights off, gradually picking up speed and zigzagging along the promenade. The year-old Tunisian, described by ISIS today as a 'soldier', used his credit card and driving licence to collect the vehicle from the garage in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, 30 minutes west of Nice on Monday.
He was due to return the vehicle on Wednesday, 24 hours before he drove into crowds enjoying the July 14 Bastille Day celebrations on the Nice promenade.
Bouhlel did not have the correct driving licence to rent a lorry of that size, Le Figaro reported. As the vehicle was a tonne refrigerated lorry, he needed a 'C permit' licence, for which he would have required an extensive medical examination. To qualify for one a driver must be at least 21 years old and have lived in France for at least six months, with a valid work permit.
