ABC News(NICE, France) — French authorities in Nice have refused a request from anti-terror police to delete surveillance camera images of last week’s deadly truck attack.
The Paris prosecutor’s office made the request to reportedly avoid the “uncontrolled dissemination” of images, according to BBC, but officials in Nice say the images are still evidence and should not be destroyed.
The news comes as local and national authorities have been fighting over the scale of police in wake of the attack, according to BBC.
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel killed 84 people when he drove a truck through a packed crowd on July 14 for a Bastille Day fireworks display.
A French official said Thursday he may have plotted the attack for at least a year and is believed to have had help from at least five others.
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