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Police hunt BMW driver who mowed down six French soldiers in Paris
Police were scrambling to track down the vehicle, which took off after the incident described by local mayor Patrick Balkany as "without a doubt a deliberate act". The vehicle took off after the incident, at about 6am GMT in the north-western suburb of Levallois-Perret. Mayor of Levallois-Perret Patrick Balkany has said he saw a BMW drive into the group of soldiers and has "no doubt" it was a deliberate act. "Without any doubt, it was a deliberate act," Balkany told BFM TV. Television station BFM said there are three hypotheses: A terror attack, a complete accident, or a mentally unstable driver. Witnesses have said the car was parked in a cul-de-sac before the incident and that the driver was alone. The driver is understood to have ploughed into the soldiers during a changing of the guards on a side street. Police are still currently chasing the driver and on the lookout for the BMW he as driving. Counter terror police are still not involved in the investigation as the manhunt continues, Le Parisien newspaper reports, writes Oliver Gee. The soldiers were actually hit by their own vehicle, which had in turn been rammed by the BMW in question, Le Parisien adds.
French security forces have shot and incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a man suspected of being behind an attack on a group of soldiers on Wednesday morning in a Gay Paree suburb, security sources said. The man, aged in his late 30s, was intercepted on a motorway north of the French capital in a vehicle used to drive into the soldiers, the sources said, asking not to be named.
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