Soldiers hit and injured by vehicle, in Paris. One suspect arrested – UPDATE
French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Parissuburb of Levallois-Perret, Paris police authorities said on Wednesday.
UPDATE 3: Prime Minister Edouard Philippe confirmed that police had arrested the suspect behind an attack on French soldiers in a Paris suburb on Wednesday.
“A suspect who was driving the car involved in the attack has been arrested on the highway between Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer,” Philippe told lawmakers during parliament question time.
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UPDATE 2: The man suspected of ramming a car into a group of soldiers on Wednesday in a Paris suburb has been shot and arrested on a motorway in northern France, a judicial source said.
A Reuters witness at the scene saw a BMW car, the model used in the attack, with several bullet holes in it. Ambulances surrounded the vehicle.
One policeman was wounded by a stray bullet in the operation, which took place on the A16 motorway near Marquise, close to the ports of Boulogne-Sur-Mer and Calais.
The suspect was not armed, the source said.
UPDATE 1: French counter-terrorist investigators have been asked to probe an incident in which a car rammed into a group of soldiers in a Paris suburb on Wednesday, a source in the judiciary said.
A judicial source told Reuters that the department had taken up the matter and was working alongside colleagues from the DGSI internal intelligence agency – a move that in France shows the matter is being treated as a probable act of terrorism.
A statement from French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly added that police forces were looking for a suspect on the run after the incident, in which police said six soldiers were injured, two of them seriously.
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“Police intervention is underway. Search underway for vehicle,” the Paris police department said in a Tweet.
Six soldiers were hurt, four of them lightly and two more seriously, a police department official added in response to a query from Reuters.
Local French mayor: Levallois car hitting soldiers was deliberate act
Patrick Balkany, the local mayor for the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, had “no doubt” that Wednesday’s incident in which a car drove into a group of soldiers, was a deliberate act.
“Without any doubt, it was a deliberate act,” Balkany told BFM TV.
“It’s an odious act of aggression,” Balkany also said, adding that the car in question was a BMW.
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