THE lorry-driving terrorist who killed 84 people when he drove through Bastille Day revellers "like a bowling ball" smirks inside the truck - just days before his murderous rampage.

Evil Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, posed for the sick selfie inside the lorry's cab just three days before it knocked over scores of people as they watched a firework display in Nice.

18 Two days before ... Bouhlel posed for a sick selfie inside the cab of the lorry which he would use to murder 84 Bastille Day revellers only three days later

18 One day before ... he smirks alongside an unidentified friend who is wearing a Paris Saint-Germain football shirt

18 Day of attack ... the bullet-riddled vehicle after the rampage Credit: AP:Associated Press

The ISIS-inspired French-Tunisian held a bizarre pose alongside his unidentified friend as he sat at the vehicle's steering wheel.

In a second photo Lahouaiej-Bouhlel smirks as he stands in front of the 19-tonne truck alongside a man who is wearing a Paris Saint-Germain football shirt.

A source in the police investigation said the killer’s mobile is “loaded with pictures like this” from the days before the attack. The other man in the pictures is in custody.

18 The horrific attack killed more than 80 people who had been celebrating Bastille Day Credit: Reuters

18 One harrowing image appeared to show the covered body of a young child next to a toy doll Credit: Reuters

18 One distraught man sobs as he sits next to a body in the hours following the devastating attack. Hundreds were rushed to hospital following the murderous spree Credit: Starface / eyevine

Prosecutors say Bouhlel took four snaps on Bastille Day itself, just hours before he would zig-zag through crowd gathered on a two-mile stretch of the Promenade des Anglais at 40mph for half an hour.

Brave cops eventually shot him dead as he tried to open fire on the approaching officers.

Clean-shaven Bouhlel took another selfie next to the festivities just minutes before he boarded the truck to begin his attack.

He also called his brother Jabeur, 20, seconds before carrying out the ISIS inspired atrocity.

Student Jabeur yesterday revealed how he watched the drama unfold on TV and was panicked that his sibling was safe – oblivious to the fact he was behind the atrocity.

He told The Sun: “The photo he had sent me earlier, partying on the streets of Nice, made me fear he could have been a victim of the attack.

“He looked so calm and happy, like he was having the time of his life."

18 The 31-year-old was killed after his murderous rampage through the streets of Nice. He sent this picture just hours before his deadly attack Credit: Facebook

18 Bouhlel's unassuming apartment was raided by police earlier on Friday Credit: Getty Images

18 Neighbours described Bouhlel as a 'loner' and said he didn't return greetings Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

18 Bouhlel was described as as a woman-beater by those who knew him Credit: Array

Authorities in Nice yesterday completed the task of identifying all of the victims of Bouhlel's evil attack, which was inspired by terror group ISIS — 30 were Muslims.

Otmane Aissaoui, from the city’s grand mosque, said it proved Bouhlel did not care who he killed.

Ten of the 84 who died were children.

Another 202 were injured, while the bodies of the scores killed were left on the promenade as thousands of Bastille Day revellers ran for their lives.

Dramatic footage also emerged of brave victims trying to stop the attack by clinging to the doors of the lorry before being thrown under the wheels and becoming “jammed”.

A police raid of the father-of-three's home revealed the grubby lair where he planned the atrocity.

Abandoned letters, crumpled clothing and a chair discarded in the centre of the room reveal the chaos he left behind before his killing spree.

Bare walls and plain furniture decorate the bland home, with no indication the man who lived there had a social life or family.

Neighbours described the cold-blooded killer as a "lonely" and "silent" man, with one saying he never returned friendly greetings.

18 The attack was carried out by Bouhlel on the French Riviera on Bastille Day. It left 84 dead who had only moments earlier been watching a firework display Credit: matrixpictures.co.uk

18 Credit: Rex Features

The truck that was driven by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day being towed away by breakdown lorry. It had been sprayed with dozens of bullets by officers trying to stop the vehicle

18 An image of attacker Bouhlel emerged from ID papers left inside the lorry Credit: Splash News

A cousin of Bouhlel’s wife Hajer Khalfallah, said: “Bouhlel was not religious.

“He did not go to the mosque, he did not pray, he did not observe Ramadan. He drank alcohol, ate pork and took drugs. This is all forbidden under Islam.

“He was not a Muslim, he was a s***.

“He beat his wife, my cousin, he was a nasty piece of work.”

Meanwhile, it emerged divorced Bouhlel regularly visited gyms with his 73-year-old male lover.

Remy, a gym worker, said: “One day he would be weight training and the next he would do salsa dancing. The pair spoke very discreetly, but when it wasn’t busy they were close.”

Yesterday, the lawyer for Bouhlel’s ex-wife Hajer Khalfallah said her client had gone into hiding with her kids after being targeted by a “baying mob who consider her guilty”. Cops have quizzed and freed her.

Bouhlel was known to local police but not placed on any terrorist watch list set up after the Paris attacks last November.

Mourners' Nice unity

18 People form a human chain to clear the Promenade des Anglais of flowers and tributes

18 The Promenade has been opened for the first time since the attack Credit: YB

18 Volunteers moved flowers, teddy bears, candles and other tributes to a seaside park Credit: YB

MOURNERS removed flowers and other ­tributes from the Nice massacre scene yesterday as Promenade des Anglais opened for the first time since the attack.

However, riot cops were called in as crowds tried to stop the “memorial of hate” — a pile of rubbish — to killer Bouhlel being cleared.

18 Ten children were among the 84 killed in the massacre Credit: YB

18 The atrocity in Nice was the third major terror attack in France in the last 18 months Credit: YB

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