Bastille Day terrorist Mohamed Bouhlel's elderly gay lover has revealed how the ISIS killer asked him if he needed a credit card to hire a truck in the weeks before massacred 84 in Nice. The year-old, who has been identified by detectives as the killer's 'principal lover' said the married Tunisian truck terrorist showed him ISIS beheading videos on his laptop as he became radicalised. In a tearful interview with Paris Match , the man admitted he had been in a 'friendship' with bisexual Bouhlel for seven years, but admitted: 'My best friend was a murderer, a criminal.
If he had a grave I would spit on it. Scroll down for video. Murderer: Bouhlel asked his year-old gay lover if he needed a credit card to rent the truck that killed Sex maniac: Former lovers of Bouhlel have described him as a 'sex maniac' that drank alcohol and ate pork. Criminal: The pensioner said his former best friend was a criminal who he thinks was radicalised by his family. Describing the weeks before the attack, he described how Bouhlel's personality had transformed from his laughing friend- nicknamed Momo - to someone quiet and withdrawn.
He couldn't look us in the eyes. In one month he had changed,' he said. Do you know whether you have to leave a credit card or can you pay by cheque or cash? And if I don't give my credit card, can I still hire one? He laughed and said: 'It's not for me.
I'm asking for a friend - as a favour. I said 'Bugger that. The self-admittedly gay man, who isn't named and talked only of the killer as his friend and not his lover, claimed he was more a mentor, a father, who had even met his wife who called him when Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhiel had hit her. Admitting he'd known the swaggering gym enthusiast for seven years; he said he now recognised that in the month before his friend drove his truck along the Promenade des Anglais, mowing down men, women and children, in a deliberate onslaught, he had become silent.
Withdrawn: Lover described how his best friend had become sad and withdrawn in weeks before the attack. But the man, who said that Bouhlel - who he described as a 'beautiful boy' liked women and that being gay wasn't 'his thing'. But he was also frustrated and easily influenced. We talked about the jihadists but he told me: 'I don't care about the war.
