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The 31-year-old driver of a truck who murdered scores of individuals on the Nice seafront was a Tunisian insignificant criminal portrayed by neighbors as a threatening recluse who hinted at no outward being an ardent Muslim.

Agents were on Friday sorting out a photo of the father-of-three who pummeled into group who had been viewing a Bastille Day firecrackers show, killing 84 individuals including 10 kids and teenagers.

Hostile to terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins distinguished him as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, "a conveyance man, of Tunisian nationality, wedded and with youngsters" including that he had a criminal record however no known terrorist association.

His personality papers and a bank card were found in the truck and his character had been affirmed by fingerprints, he said.

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot dead by police in the driver's seat of the 19-ton lorry.

As criminological researchers, upheld by outfitted police, sought his condo in a four-story obstruct in a common laborers neighborhood of Nice, neighbors advised AFP they had little to do with him.

They depicted him as a lone figure who once in a while talked and did not return welcome when their ways crossed.

Sebastien, a neighbor who talked on condition that his full name was not utilized, said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel did not appear to be plainly religious and frequently wearing shorts.

Stand out neighbor said she had any worries about him, portraying him as "a gorgeous man who continued giving my two little girls the eye".

'Never went to mosque'

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was regularly seen drinking lager and never gone to the little mosque close to his home, different occupants of his home region told AFP.

"I never saw him at the mosque," said the overseer of a loft working as he sat in an eatery beside the mosque, who requested that not be named. Three unshaven Muslims with him concurred - they had never seen the man at the mosque either.

Molins said that despite the fact that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had never been explored by the security administrations, he was known not.

"He had a police and legal record for dangers, viciousness, burglary and demonstrations of criminal harm somewhere around 2010 and 2016, and had been sentenced by the Nice criminal court to a six-month term, suspended, on March 24 2016 for brutality with arms, perpetrated in January 2016.

"Then again, he was absolutely obscure to knowledge administrations, broadly and locally, and was never hailed for indications of radicalisation," he included.

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's better half was gotten for addressing on Friday morning, Molins said.

Neighbors said the couple had three youngsters, including an infant, however were isolated.

One inhabitant of the loft square where the family had lived until year and a half back before they split up said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was a vicious man who had a great response to his significant other's solicitation for a separation.

"His significant other had requested a separation after a rough contention," said the man, who additionally requested that not be recognized.

"I don't think there was a radicalisation issue, I think there was psychiatric issue," he included.

Police agents and criminological specialists entered the condo where he moved to at around 9:30 am with an outfitted police mediation unit in backing, and brought out packs of material later.

Eighty-four individuals were murdered, including 10 kids and young people, and 202 were harmed, 52 of them fundamentally, Molins included.

President Francois Hollande has pronounced the assault was of "an unquestionable terrorist nature. "

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