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The official line is that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was gunned down after massacring 84 people in the horrific attacks in France on Thursday.

An already-released clip showed cops homing in on the crazed terrorist and firing dozens of shots at his truck window.

A slumped body can be seen by the wheel in the film.

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But new footage posted by a conspiracy theorist insists that Bouhlel was taken alive and dragged away from scene by armed cops.

The video, posted on Youtube on July 15, the day after the attacks, included the caption: "The terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was captured alive."

Now the grainy film, viewed more than 500,000 times, has sparked a furious debate online as dozens accuse the authorities of foul play.

But it has since been removed because of "deceptive practices".

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And eagle-eyed critics have spotted inconsistencies in the film – including unexplained sudden movements which could point to it being tampered with.

Dozens of conspiracy theories have been linked to terror attacks in France in the past two years.

It has been claimed Al-Qaida supporters who attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris were in cohorts with French and international spies.

And France was also forced to deny suggestions by former Tory MP Louise Mensch that it "suppressed reports of gruesome torture" during the Bataclan siege in Paris in November.

Ms Mensch accused the French government of a cover-up – but authorities dismissed all claims of those inside the Bataclan being mutilated and humiliated before their deaths.

But a whitewash would have required more than 1,000 survivors of the horror inside the music venue colluding with the French state to keep information a secret.