Paris: A French anti-terrorist judge has charged three more men suspected of helping to arm the Islamist radical who crushed 86 people to death with a truck in Nice.
The three, who were among 11 arrested in Nice and the western city of Nantes, were remanded into custody. The other eight have been released.
The three, aged 24, 31 and 36, were charged in relation to a terrorist plot.
The arrests come five months after Tunisian extremist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a 19-tonne truck into a crowd on the Nice seafront. .
The victims from 19 different countries were watching a fireworks display on July 14, the Bastille Day public holiday. Over 400 people were injured.
Six people have already been charged so far over alleged links to the killer but investigators have yet to prove that any of them knew what he was planning.
The three men charged afresh are linked to varying degrees to these suspects.
The 31-year-old, born in Tunisia, is suspected of being an intermediary between the Albanian couple and Arefa, said a source close to investigation. The 24-year-old, born in Albania and a cousin of Henaj, is suspected of being implicated in a transaction over a Kalashnikov.
The Islamic State group moved quickly after the attack to claim Bouhlel as one of its followers.
