French police arrested a man and a woman on Sunday as new details suggested the truck driver who killed 84 people in Nice and who was described by Islamist militant group Isis as one of its “soldiers” may have radicalised shortly before committing his attack.
The arrests bring the number of people held in custody to six after the wife of the killer, identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was released.
It comes a day after Isis admitted the Bastille Day massacre with a claim of responsibility on a website with ties to the jihadist group. The Isis-linked media site Amaq said Bouhlel acted in “response to calls to target sponsors of the coalition that fights the Islamic State”.