⁍ Tunisian authorities have authorised an investigation into whether a group called the Mahdi Organisation exists and carried out the Nice attack.

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⁍ The public prosecutor’s office of the judiciary’s anti-terrorism court has delegated a specialised security unit to carry out the investigation.

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⁍ It will seek to learn whether the Mahdi organisation exists and the veracity of claims made on social media that it was behind Thursday’s attack in the French city.

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– Tunisian authorities are investigating claims on social media that a group called the Mahdi Organization carried out Thursday’s attack in Nice, France, Reuters reports. According to the state news agency TAP, the judiciary’s anti-terrorism court has authorized an investigation to determine if the Mahdi Organization actually exists.