Yet another scary day in the heart of Paris. A man drove into a police van on the Champs-Elysees. An attack which, according to interior sources, has already been classified as "terrorism".
The man was pulled out of the car seriously injured and would die in the following minutes. There are no injuries. The vehicle would have exploded on impact and, according to the first rumors, the bomber would have had weapons and ammunition with him. Inside the car, according to what was reported by Bfm TV, some gas cylinders were also found which caused the vehicle to explode.
"Most likely" the Champs-Elysees bomber "is dead," reports Pierre-Henri Brandet, spokesman for the French Interior Ministry.
The action, which ended in front of the police station in the XNUMXth arrondissement, took place a few hundred meters from the Elysée, where this evening President Emmanuel Macron will receive the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, for an official dinner.
The neighborhood is cordoned off. A car went up in flames near the Franklin Roosevelt subway stop.
The man allegedly responsible for the attack was born in 1985 and is registered S, an acronym reserved for radicalized suspects. This was reported by the newspaper Le Parisien. According to the newspaper, the 31-year-old, born in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise), near Paris, was "radicalised and armed".
