Five suspects apprehended in connection with recent France attacks
Five individuals accepted to be connected to the man who slaughtered 84 individuals in Nice are in police authority, the Paris prosecutor's office says.
Three captures were made on Saturday and two on Friday, Le Monde reported.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry through group stamping Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday before he was shot dead by police.
Alleged Islamic State guarantees the lorry assault was done by one of its adherents.
A news office connected to the gathering, Amaq Agency, said: "He did the assault because of calls to focus on the residents of the coalition that is battling the Islamic State."
French President Francois Hollande will seat emergency talks later.
Mr Hollande, who says the assault was a terrorist demonstration, has officially augmented a highly sensitive situation by three months.
Prosecutors said Tunisian Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove the lorry 2km (1.2 miles) along the promenade focusing on individuals.
Ten of the dead were kids. Somewhere in the range of 202 individuals were harmed; 52 are basic, of whom 25 are in a coma.
Stephanie Simpson, correspondences chief at the Lenval establishment for kids in Nice, said five youngsters stayed in basic condition, one was in a "terrible" condition, three were on simulated breath, one has been settled and one eight-year-old kid stays unidentified.
At the meeting with the security boss, Mr Hollande is relied upon to audit all choices in light of the assault.
A highly sensitive situation has been set up crosswise over France since November's Paris assaults did by aggressors from the purported Islamic State bunch, in which 130 individuals passed on. It had been because of end on 26 July.
Nearly 30,000 individuals were on the Promenade des Anglais at the season of the assault, authorities said.
Occupants of Nice and remote sightseers were slaughtered, among them four French nationals, three Algerians, an instructor and two schoolchildren from Germany, three Tunisians, two Swiss, two Americans, a Ukrainian, an Armenian and a Russian.
Mr Hollande said the assault was of "an obvious terrorist nature".
He cautioned that the fight against terrorism would be long, as France confronted an adversary "that will keep on attacking those individuals and those nations that consider freedom a crucial worth".
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the assault bore the signs of jihadist terrorism.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was referred to the police as an insignificant criminal, yet was "absolutely obscure to knowledge administrations... also, was never hailed for indications of radicalisation," the prosecutor included.
Three captures were made on Saturday and two on Friday, Le Monde reported.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry through group stamping Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday before he was shot dead by police.
Alleged Islamic State guarantees the lorry assault was done by one of its adherents.
A news office connected to the gathering, Amaq Agency, said: "He did the assault because of calls to focus on the residents of the coalition that is battling the Islamic State."
French President Francois Hollande will seat emergency talks later.
Mr Hollande, who says the assault was a terrorist demonstration, has officially augmented a highly sensitive situation by three months.
Prosecutors said Tunisian Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove the lorry 2km (1.2 miles) along the promenade focusing on individuals.
Ten of the dead were kids. Somewhere in the range of 202 individuals were harmed; 52 are basic, of whom 25 are in a coma.
Stephanie Simpson, correspondences chief at the Lenval establishment for kids in Nice, said five youngsters stayed in basic condition, one was in a "terrible" condition, three were on simulated breath, one has been settled and one eight-year-old kid stays unidentified.
At the meeting with the security boss, Mr Hollande is relied upon to audit all choices in light of the assault.
A highly sensitive situation has been set up crosswise over France since November's Paris assaults did by aggressors from the purported Islamic State bunch, in which 130 individuals passed on. It had been because of end on 26 July.
Nearly 30,000 individuals were on the Promenade des Anglais at the season of the assault, authorities said.
Occupants of Nice and remote sightseers were slaughtered, among them four French nationals, three Algerians, an instructor and two schoolchildren from Germany, three Tunisians, two Swiss, two Americans, a Ukrainian, an Armenian and a Russian.
Mr Hollande said the assault was of "an obvious terrorist nature".
He cautioned that the fight against terrorism would be long, as France confronted an adversary "that will keep on attacking those individuals and those nations that consider freedom a crucial worth".
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the assault bore the signs of jihadist terrorism.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was referred to the police as an insignificant criminal, yet was "absolutely obscure to knowledge administrations... also, was never hailed for indications of radicalisation," the prosecutor included.
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