Car ploughs into pizzeria near Paris, killing 12-year-old girl

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Car ploughs into pizzeria near Paris, killing 12-year-old girl

 

French gendarmes maintain a roadblock a certain distance from the scene where a car ploughed into the outdoor terrace of a pizzeria, killing a young girl and injuring several other people according to media reports in Sept-Sorts, east of Paris, France, August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

 

(Reuters) - A car ploughed into the outdoor terrace of a pizzeria in the small town of Sept-Sorts east of Paris on Monday, killing a 12-year-old girl and seriously injuring several other people.

 

The driver deliberately targeted the diners, said a local prosecutor who announced he was ruling out terrorism and opening a murder investigation.

 

"There is no doubt that he voluntarily decided to create what happened," prosecutor Eric de Valroger told reporters at the scene of the incident.

 

No weapon was found in the vehicle, the prosecutor added.

 

Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told Reuters the driver was a "depressive" aged 32 and described him as an unstable character.

 

The incident occurred on a warm summer's evening on the eve of a national holiday and witnesses said the outdoor eating area was busy.

 

A photograph published on social media showed a grey BMW car surrounded by upturned tables in the outdoor seating area of a restaurant. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the image.

 

Brandet said five victims were being treated in hospital for life-threatening injuries. Eight others suffered minor injuries and seven were treated for shock.

 

"Everyone on the terrace was hit," one witness told BFM TV.

 

A police source said the driver lived in a neighbouring village to Sept-Sorts, about 41 km (25.6 miles) to the east of Paris, and had tried to commit suicide on Sunday.

 

The incident occurred less than a week after an Algerian national was arrested on suspicion of deliberately ramming a hire car into a group of soldiers on a patrol in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, injuring six of them.

 

The soldiers were part of Operation Sentinel, launched in the wake of Islamist attacks in Paris in early 2015. The Levallois-Perret attack was the 15th on troops and police in the last two-and-a-half years, many of them Islamic State-inspired.

 

(Reporting by Richard Lough, Yves Clarisse and Danielle Rouquie; editing by Mark Heinrich, Larry King)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-08-15

[Ruffian Dick]

Quel dommage.

[binjalin]

Unfathomable tragedy  RIP

[boomerangutang]

Sad.  It brings to mind some girls, that age, who never fail to greet me with bright smiles and 'mengala ba' when I stroll to the gold-covered stupa at a Burmese border town.

[maximillian]

A police source said the driver lived in a neighbouring village to Sept-Sorts, about 41 km (25.6 miles) to the east of Paris, and had tried to commit suicide on Sunday.

 

 

A shame his suicide attempt on Sunday failed.

What a tragedy.

[bert bloggs]

So this will be not classed as a terrorist attack as he had tried before to commit suicide and had"mental problems"

[simple1]

2 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

So this will be not classed as a terrorist attack as he had tried before to commit suicide and had"mental problems"

Police have arrested the driver and at this stage have not identified a terrorism factor. Of course could change after more evidence comes to light, so how about ceasing jumping to conclusions

 

 

[Foozool]

If someone really wants to take own life can do this without harming others. ?

Killing others is part of plan. ☠️

 

Edited August 15, 2017 by Foozool

[RuamRudy]

30 minutes ago, Foozool said:

If someone really wants to take own life can do this without harming others. ?

Killing others is part of plan. ☠️

 

If someone really wants to take their own life, there is a good chance that their rational thinking is not optimum.  

Edited August 15, 2017 by RuamRudy

[balo]

Let me guess, the driver were not Pierre .  

[FreddieRoyle]

51 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

If someone really wants to take their own life, there is a good chance that their rational thinking is not optimum.  

"If" being the pertinent word there. We don't know the drivers name yet, we know nothing about his background, and yet we are told as fact that he is so "mentally-ill"  that he attempted suicide recently. Really?? It sounds like an effort to downplay this terror attack. Incidentally this is not the 1st time the targets have been children, just a very sick situation all round.

 

 

[RuamRudy]

2 minutes ago, FreddieRoyle said:

"If" being the pertinent word there. We don't know the drivers name yet, we know nothing about his background, and yet we are told as fact that he is so "mentally-ill"  that he attempted suicide recently. Really?? It sounds like an effort to downplay this terror attack. Incidentally this is not the 1st time the targets have been children, just a very sick situation all round.

 

 

You started off so well, but then you seem to have turned on your own admission - you have gone from acknowledging that you have absolutely no information whatsoever about the background of the driver, but then you head straight up conspiracy alley with nothing to direct you there. How about waiting a little longer before you start applying labels? 

[Foozool]

1 hour ago, RuamRudy said:

If someone really wants to take their own life, there is a good chance that their rational thinking is not optimum.  

That's why "this kind" survive and others die❗️?????

[phantomfiddler]

1 hour ago, balo said:

Let me guess, the driver were not Pierre .  

No, most likely Mohammed Leprique !