US EditionSeveral critically injured after car ploughs into crowd on French island
- On Wednesday, a 35-year-old man rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on Île d'Oléron, wounding 10 people, including four seriously, between Dolus-d'Oléron and Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron.
- Thiebault Brechkoff and local officials said the suspect, about 35, was known to police for drug offences and lives in La Cotinière, not listed for radicalisation prevention.
- The suspect was tasered and taken into custody by gendarmes at the scene after he attempted to set his vehicle on fire with gas cylinders, French media and reports said.
- Paramedics and firefighters treated ten injured people and arranged hospital evacuations; the three most injured were airlifted to the University Hospital of Poitiers, while two victims remain in intensive care and four are in critical condition, and a psychological support unit was established at Château d'Oléron.
- Authorities mobilised all services while investigators handled the case as a criminal matter for now; Arnaud Laraize said anti-terror judges were not informed and a criminal probe for attempted murder was opened.
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Five people hit in car ramming on touristic French island
A motorist “deliberately” hit five people over 35 minutes on Île d’Oléron, a quiet French island popular with summer tourists off the Atlantic coast. An investigation for attempted murder is underway, but the case is not being treated as a terrorist investigation . The suspect was already known by police for petty crimes, and his motives remain unclear.
The author of the deliberate multiple assault on the island of Olerón (opposite the west coast of France), which has left two very serious and three minor injuries, had no record of religious radicalization, although an anti-terrorist prosecutor is present at the site as “observer”.
Several people were hit and injured on the western French Atlantic island of Île d'Oléron. The suspect driver was arrested. He has already noticed the police several times.[more]]>
The driver was arrested and placed in police custody this Wednesday, 5 November, a few minutes after his gesture, as he tried to set fire to his vehicle, according to the information of the "Parisien".
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