⁍ Tunisia has opened an investigation after reports that the suspect in the Nice attack is Tunisian.

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⁍ The public prosecutor of the anti-terrorism court has opened a forensic investigation.

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– Tunisian authorities have identified the man who mowed down scores of people in Nice as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-oldTunisian who had been on the country’s terror watch list, the Telegraph reports. “The public prosecutor of the anti-terrorism court has opened a forensic investigation into the suspicion that a Tunisian committed a terrorist operation abroad,” a spokesman for a specialized counter-militancy court told Reuters on Thursday. Bouhlel was born in Tunisia and had been on the country’s terror watch list since 2011.