At
least 2 people have been seriously injured after a mentally unstable driver
shouting 'Allahu Akbar' has deliberately run into crowds of pedestrians in
several separate locations in the French city of Dijon.
In
total, 11 people have been injured in the run-over incidents on Sunday evening,
AFP reports.
"Nine
people were lightly injured and two others seriously but their lives do not
appear to be in danger," police source said.
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According
to Le Figaro, there were three people inside the car. The motorists first hit 4
pedestrians and then crashed into a crowd of 7, reports Le Bien Republic.
The driver tried to flee the scene, but
was detained by police. The perpetrator was “apparently imbalanced and had been in a psychiatric
hospital," the source told AFP, adding that "for now his motives are still
unclear".
According
to witnesses, besides "Allahu
Akbar" the driver also shouted
that that he was acting “for the
children of Palestine."
The
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has expressed his support and solidarity
with the victims of the incident and their families.
The Sunday incident comes a
day after a French man armed with a knife stormed a police station at
Joue-les-Tours near the city of Tours and stabbed three police officers, also
reportedly shouting ‘God is great’ in Arabic. The attacker was shot dead by
police.
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