Man Shot and Arrested After Car Ploughs Into Group of Soldiers Patrolling Paris Suburb

Man Shot and Arrested After Car Ploughs Into Group of Soldiers Patrolling Paris Suburb, by Oliver Lane.

Six soldiers of the 25th infantry regiment were injured in the incident, two of them seriously. Ouest France reports the car involved in the incident waited outside a French army barracks in Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris, driving into the soldiers as they left the facility at approximately 0815 Wednesday morning. …

The car was driven away after it struck the soldiers, and police launched a manhunt. Six hours later, officers arrested a suspect who was driving north on the motorway in the direction of Calais …

The soldiers were members of Operation Sentinel, which has seen up to 100,000 French troops deployed in a domestic counter insurgency operation protecting key tourist spots as well as schools, mosques, and synagogues.

Hardly registers as “news” anymore.