More vehicular jihad in Paris? Driver arrested after deliberately ramming car into soldiers

It’s everyday news now. Another attack corresponding to the jihadist modus operandi, another report in which nothing is revealed about the perpetrator, and another group of officials saying the motive is unclear. Watch this space for the same thing happening yet again next week. And the week after that. And on and on until the West collapses — or finally decides to put a stop to this madness.

“Man arrested in search for driver who hit French soldiers,” by Angela Charlton and Raphael Satter, Associated Press, August 9, 2017:

LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France — French police arrested a man Wednesday in the search for a driver who slammed his BMW into soldiers in a Paris suburb Wednesday, injuring six of them in what appeared to be a carefully timed ambush before speeding away, officials said.

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The driver’s motive was unclear, but officials said he deliberately aimed at the soldiers, and counterterrorism authorities opened an investigation. None of the soldiers had life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

It was the latest of several attacks targeting security forces guarding France over the past year. While others have targeted prominent sites like the Eiffel Tower, Wednesday’s attack hit the leafy, relatively affluent suburb of Levallois-Perret that is home to France’s main intelligence service, the DGSI.

Witnesses described seeing a BMW with one person inside waiting in a cul-de-sac near a building used for the soldiers, according to two police officials. One official said the attacker struck just as a group of soldiers emerged from the building to board vehicles for a new shift.

Authorities checked video surveillance of the area, near the city hall of Levallois, northwest of Paris, and police fanned out around the French capital and stopped numerous cars as they searched for the attacker.

Most were released. But in one case, police stopped a car on the A16 highway and arrested the driver and were verifying his possible links to the attack, according to two police officials. One said the arrest was violent and police fired at the suspect to subdue him. The officials weren’t authorized to be publicly named because of an ongoing police operation….

The street is normally guarded by posts that are removed when vehicles move in and out, so the driver must have known exactly when to strike, Veillant said. “They must’ve really planned this,” he said.

Three of the soldiers hit in the morning attack were slightly injured, while three were more seriously hurt, but their lives weren’t in danger, according to the Defense Ministry. The defense minister said she received “reassuring” news about their condition Wednesday afternoon.

The soldiers were from the 35th infantry regiment and served in Operation Sentinelle, created to guard prominent French sites after a string of deadly Islamic extremist attacks in 2015.

French counterterrorism prosecutors opened an investigation aimed at pursuing perpetrators on charges of attempted murder of security forces in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The move means authorities believe the attack was deliberate and planned with a terrorist motive….

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Ego

6 years ago

As Sadiq Khan said, terrorism is part and parcel of living in a big city.
This is what he meant, and nobody hit him over the head with a 2 by 4.

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AlgorithmicAnalyst

6 years ago

Notice they used good tactics in tracking down the perp in this case, and quickly found and arrested him.

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

Same old same old, what’s happening in the sports and weather?

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Suresh

6 years ago

Jihadi do hate soldiers more because they are getting in the way of raping and murdering infidels !

Its sharia/Islam drip by drip . In America we have Islamonazi demanding we stop honoring American soldiers during Memorial day and instead honor Jihadis killed by American Soldiers just the way Palestine govt does to its jihadis !

Hard to believe ? check http://bit.ly/2qvcHov

And why are such scumbags who cannot even respect our soldiers deported after rescinding their citizenship rights & for supporting jihadi terrorists ?

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Nostradamus 2.0

6 years ago

This being France / French, I imagine that relatively soon (within the next year or two?), they will just stop bothering looking for these “lone wolf” terrorists, and collapse into a state of apathy / acceptance…

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GR Arnold

6 years ago

And the brain-dead liberals over here in the USA are hollering about guns. Idiots !!!

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