Instead Monk Hebdo closed the matter on 13 December 2022 and, after more than three months of hearing, the sentence of the trial for the Nice attack which killed 86 people on 14 July 2016 was dropped. The eight defendants were found guilty by the court of special assembly in Paris. They were sentenced to terms ranging from two to eighteen years in prison. Eighteen years in prison were requested against Mohamed Ghraieb and Chokri Chafroud and twelve years against Ramzi Arefa. They have been tried for “terrorist conspiracy”. This qualification was dropped for Ramzi Arefa, the court deeming that he could not know the radicalization of the assassin. Arefa had provided a gun to the attacker, who used it, causing no injuries. On the other hand, the court ruled that Mohamed Ghraieb, a 47-year-old French-Tunisian, and Chokri Chafroud, a 43-year-old Tunisian, knew about this radicalisation. For the other five defendants tried for conspiracy to commit crimes, without terrorist qualifications, or for arms trafficking, the special assize court of Paris sentenced them to prison terms of between two and ten years.
