Italian Police Arrest Man Suspected of Helping 2016 Nice Attacker

In this still image from video, Italian police arrest Endri Elezi, 28, suspected of supplying weapons to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the man who killed 86 people in July 2016 by driving a truck through a seafront crowd in the French city of Nice, in Sparanise near Caserta, Italy, on April 21, 2021. Polizia di Stato/Handout via Reuters

ROME—Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested an Albanian man suspected of supplying weapons to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed 86 people in July 2016 by driving a truck through a seafront crowd in the French city of Nice.

Police said Endri Elezi, 28, was seized in the late hours of Wednesday in Sparanise, a town close to Caserta, in southern Italy. France had issued a European arrest warrant for him.