Car Rams Into Soldiers in Paris Suburb, Man Arrested

Car Rams Into Soldiers in Paris Suburb, Man Arrested
Police and rescue forces surround a BMW car with several bullet holes in it at the scene where the man suspected of ramming a car into a group of soldiers on Wednesday in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret was shot and arrested on the A16 motorway, near Marquise, France on August 9, 2017. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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PARIS—A car rammed into a group of soldiers in a Parisian suburb on Wednesday, injuring six before speeding off and sparking a manhunt that a judicial source said ended with the suspect’s arrest on a motorway.

In an attack that authorities said bore the stamp of terrorism, the driver appeared to have lain in wait for the soldiers in a pedestrian zone near their base in Levallois-Perret.

The affluent suburb on the northwestern edge of Paris is home to France’s domestic counter-terrorism agency. Several dozen troops from Operation Sentinel, launched in the wake of Islamist attacks in Paris in early 2015, are based there.

The car accelerated into the troops, who were starting their patrol, when they were a few meters away, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told reporters outside the hospital where the three more seriously injured victims were being treated.

A still image taken from a video shows French police who surround a BMW car with several bullet impacts at the scene where the man suspected of ramming a car into a group of soldiers on Wednesday in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret was shot and arrested on the A16 motorway, near Marquise, France on Aug. 9, 2017. (REUTERS/Reuters TV)
A still image taken from a video shows French police who surround a BMW car with several bullet impacts at the scene where the man suspected of ramming a car into a group of soldiers on Wednesday in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret was shot and arrested on the A16 motorway, near Marquise, France on Aug. 9, 2017. REUTERS/Reuters TV