Bastille Day attacker previously beat man with spiked plank – police

The Nice truck attacker beat a driver with a nail-studded plank in January after the men got into a fight in traffic, according to a police report seen by AFP on Monday. The accused, which killed 84 people in the French Riviera city, last week on Bastille Day, got a six-month suspended sentence for the traffic altercation, which happened in broad daylight on January 25. According to the report, police who responded to a call of a fight on a busy street in central Nice found a man with a "gaping wound about six centimetres deep at the top of the skull". The victim was bleeding profusely and told officers that Bouhlel – who stayed on the scene after the attack to continue a delivery with his truck – was responsible.