(VOVworld) – French judges on Thursday charged five suspects who were in contact with truck attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel in the lead-up to the Nice attack that left 84 people dead, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

The Paris prosecutor, François Molins, at a news conference on Thursday where he gave an update on the Nice attack case. (Photo: AFP)

The five are Franco-Tunisian Ramzi A, Tunisian Chokri C., Mohamed Oualid G., Albanian Artan H., and his wife Enkeledja Z. who holds both French and Albanian nationality.

Francois Molins, the public prosecutor in Paris, said that Bouhlel planned his assault over several months and got help from at least five people. The conclusion was based on an analysis by more than 400 investigators of pictures, text messages, and phone calls from Bouhlel’s mobile phone.