Sandra Bertin, the Nice city official responsible for supervising CCTV cameras on the night of the July 14, 2016 attack, was acquitted on Monday of charges of malicious denunciation after a court found she had not lied when she claimed to have been pressured to modify her report on the security arrangements that evening.
Bertin had been charged after alleging that she was put under pressure by the Interior Ministry to alter a report suggesting the camera system was inadequate on the night a lorry drove into crowds on the Promenade des Anglais, killing 86 people. The charge of malicious denunciation related to those accusations.
The Nice court's acquittal on Monday, July 6 closes one of the longest running and most controversial legal threads arising from the attack, which has been followed by years of proceedings involving victims, families, security services and officials. The tenth anniversary of the attack falls on Tuesday, July 14.
Source: France 3 Régions Alpes-Maritimes