Bastille Day killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s favourite lover was a 73-year-old male pensioner, it has been revealed.
The ‘sexually obsessed’ 31-year-old had numerous male and female conquests that he found on dating sites according to Daily Mail.
But the pensioner was described as his ‘principal’ lover by detectives who have unearthed details of his personal life by examining his mobile phone.
The father-of-three also regularly viewed sites showing violent sex as well as propaganda and graphic scenes of torture and beheadings.
As well as being a practising homosexual, Bouhlel drank alcohol and smoked drugs, despite claims he had been recently radicalised into a strict Muslim.
Officers discovered the phone inside the cab of the lorry he used to massacre 85 people on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday.
Police were only able to stop Bouhlel’s murderous rampage by shooting him dead.
But the phone is proving more vital to the investigation than the seven suspects currently being questioned over links to Bouhlel.
These include two Albanians suspected of supplying a pistol to Bouhlel, and others whose phone numbers appeared on the phone.
The device itself is full of messages, videos and photographs, including ones of men and women Boulel had recently slept with.
He took frequent selfies and would record all of his relationships with other people, however brief.
He even took a selfie of himself inside the truck just moments before heading off on his killing spree, sending it to family members in his native Tunisia.
‘The testimony which investigators are relying on most is that of the mobile phone,’ reported the BFM TV news channel, basing their report on evidence leaked to them.
Some 200 officers are now working exclusively on enquiries related to data found on the phone.
It has also emerged his estranged wife was planning on heading to the fireworks display but pulled out at the last minute citing ‘personal reasons’, according to local media.
Both his wife and her mother had been the victims of his domestic abuse, according to French detectives.
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