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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 04:57 AM Aug 2017

Paris attack: Hunt for car driven at soldiers injuring six

Source: BBC

A car has struck a group of soldiers in Paris, injuring six, two seriously, police say. An urgent police operation is now under way to find the vehicle - reportedly a BMW - and driver involved in the incident in the north-western suburb of Levallois-Perret.

The local mayor, Patrick Balkany, said he had no doubt that the "disgusting" act was deliberate.
(snip)

Wednesday's attack took place near the town hall in Levallois-Perret, Mr Balkany told local media.


Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40873801

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Paris attack: Hunt for car driven at soldiers injuring six (Original Post) nitpicker Aug 2017 OP
I'm sure it was an accident. Rustyeye77 Aug 2017 #1
An ex-naval officer speeding the wrong way up a Seventh Avenue sidewalk? LanternWaste Aug 2017 #4
Did they also get into shootouts with the cops B2G Aug 2017 #5
Because 9 out of 10 times when someone attacks French military/police.. EX500rider Aug 2017 #6
Paris attack: Man held after car rams into soldiers muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #2
Glad they got the guy. Even gladder they took him alive. Coventina Aug 2017 #3
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
4. An ex-naval officer speeding the wrong way up a Seventh Avenue sidewalk?
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 01:32 PM
Aug 2017

An ex-naval officer speeding the wrong way up a NYC Seventh Avenue sidewalk (Richard Rojas)? Maybe a pissed-off and overly-emotional ex-husband in Utah (Jeremy Patterson)? A frustrated driver with road-rage (Lakeisha Holloway)?

I mean, who focuses on one and only one probability at the expense of all others... other than lazy mind?

EX500rider

(10,842 posts)
6. Because 9 out of 10 times when someone attacks French military/police..
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 03:15 PM
Aug 2017

....it turns out to be the same type of attackers?
i.e., ISIS wanna-be's

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
2. Paris attack: Man held after car rams into soldiers
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:55 PM
Aug 2017

(update at URL in OP)

Police in France have shot, wounded and arrested a man after a dramatic car chase along a motorway in the north of the country following an attack on soldiers in a suburb of Paris.

A bullet-holed BMW could be seen where police brought it to a halt.
...
Reports say one policeman was injured during the arrest operation on the A16 motorway at the town of Marquise near the port of Boulogne.

The BMW is said to have hit at least one other vehicle during the chase and the police opened fire several times. The suspect is in his 30s.

Coventina

(27,115 posts)
3. Glad they got the guy. Even gladder they took him alive.
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 01:25 PM
Aug 2017

More of these guys need to be put on trial and made to serve sentences.

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