More than 200 people were injured on the Promenade des Anglais when Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove the 19-tonne hired truck into crowds of people.
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The four others detained were friends and acquaintances rather than family, the network reported.
Along the route of the attack there are shrines and memorials to the victims – among the tributes are teddy bears and toys, a reminder of the fact that children were among the dead.
Social media accounts that usually support IS have been gloating over the attack, the third terrorist massacre in France since January previous year, but none mentioned the man’s name before authorities released it.
“A woman was there, she lost her son”.
Earlier today, Bayan, a radio station linked to the radical group, also stated that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had employed a “new, special operation using a truck” to perpetrate the mass killing. He had one criminal conviction for road rage, having been sentenced to probation three months ago for throwing a wooden pallet at another driver.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said Saturday that five people are in custody following the attack.
The driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was shot dead by officers at the scene.
“Although yesterday’s attack has not been claimed, this sort of thing fits in perfectly with calls for murder from such terrorist organisations”.
He and his wife had three children, but she had demanded a divorce after a “violent argument”, one neighbour said. Inside the truck, police found a large cache of firearms and grenades.
“It was at that moment that the police were able to stop the terrorist”, Ciotti said, according to the New York Times.
“No. we have an individual who was not known to intelligence services.”
The Islamic State has previously claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks even when there wasn’t any clear indication that the group played a role.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles Police Department are urging residents to remain vigilant of suspicious behavior following a deadly terror attack in France, but say neither agency has received “specific or credible threats” locally.
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And the news channel iTELE said investigators have been told by those under arrest that he recently brought up IS, which he had not done previously, and he had stopped drinking alcohol.
