Mohamed Bouhlel's family: Nice attacker 'had psychological problems that caused a nervous breakdown'

Mohamed Bouhlel, the man who waged a deadly attack on a crowd of Bastille Day revelers in Nice, France, "had psychological problems that caused a nervous breakdown," said his father, Mohamed Mondher Lahouaiej Bouhlel, on Saturday. "He would become angry, shout, break everything around him."

Rabeb Bouhlel, the attacker's sister, likewise said her family has "given the police documents showing that he had been seeing psychologists for several years." Before he was killed by law enforcement during his onslaught, Bouhlel was convicted of road rage and was separated from his wife after a history of domestic violence.

Though the Islamic State has taken responsibility for his actions — which left at least 84 people dead, including two Americans — French authorities are still investigating how and when Bouhlel could have been radicalized, as he was not known to intelligence officials as a terror risk.

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