truck terrorist told police he was 'delivering ice cream'
- Truck terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, parked on the Promenade for nearly nine hours before massacre
- Police officers allegedly questioned him but did nothing to move him on and did not search his weapon-filled vehicle
- Revealed today to be a father-of-three who was living in a shabby flat after separating from his wife two years ago
Anti-terror police searched the shabby flat of truck terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel today after he massacred 84 innocents on Bastille Day in Nice.
Photographs of the small, run-down flat reveal the disarray left behind by the father-of-three as he headed out to launch his deadly attack on the French city.
A chest of drawers has been torn apart, the drawers piled up loosely, its contents scattered over the floor of the room.
Clothes lie abandoned on the floor by a cupboard, which hangs ajar, and a chair stands forgotten in the middle of the room.
Police today raided the shabby home, where the ISIS fanatic planned the brutal slaughter of holidaymakers and locals as they celebrated on the Promenade des Anglais.
The 31-year-old French-Tunisian was already known to police when he drove a lorry for more than a mile through crowds of revellers on Bastille Day.
Bouhlel, a delivery driver who separated from his wife two years ago, has a criminal record for domestic violence, theft and possession of weapons.
He was also on probation after he recently fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into four vehicles on a highway, it is claimed.
Hauntingly, Bouhlel told police he was delivering ice cream when they questioned why he was parked on the promenade for nearly nine hours before he launched his attack.
But police let him stay parked on the beachfront and failed to check his vehicle - where he had stashed guns and grenades.
Neighbours of Bouhlel described him as a 'lonely' and 'silent' man, with one saying he never returned their greetings.
As well as past allegations of violent behaviour, Bouhlel was under probation for 15 days after he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into four vehicles on a highway, it is claimed in Spanish press.
The attacker was shot dead by a police officer, believed to have been female, after he opened fire into a crowd of fleeing people.
His lorry was later found to contain a pistol, a larger weapon and a cache of other weapons and grenades that were later found to be fake.
The streets were closed at 3pm for the Bastille Day celebrations, with no cars allowed in or out of the area while revellers celebrated.
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