FRANCE TERRORIST WATCH
Car hits soldiers in suspected terror act
Site of the attack, the affluent Levallois-Perret suburb, is home to France’s domestic counterterrorism agency
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 counterterrorism 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 metres away, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told reporters outside the hospital in which the three more seriously injured victims were being treated. "This was a deliberate act, not an accident," Collomb said, adding that counterterrorism investigators had taken up the case. A...
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