Multiple French soldiers injured in vehicle ramming attack – PB/TK
Suspect shot, detained after car attack on French troops – By CBS News / Aug 9 2017
French troops were struck by a vehicle outside a barracks in suburban Paris on Wednesday in an attack that left six wounded, including two seriously, according to French police.
Police said several hours after the attack in Levallois-Perret, a northern suburb of the French capital, that officers had arrested a man on a highway north of Paris as they searched for the driver of the BMW that rammed the soldiers.
Officials said it was too early to say for certain that the man was the person who drove the car into the troops in Levallois.
The officials said the arrest was violent, and police opened fire on and hit the suspect. The other official said the arrest took place on the A16 highway when the man was stopped as police hunted for cars suspected of involvement in the attack. The officials weren’t authorized to be publicly named. The condition of the suspect was not immediately clear
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed in a message to journalists that a terrorism investigation had been launched into the attack.
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