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Car drives into restaurant east of Paris, 12yo girl killed, 5 more injured - police Car rams into restaurant east of Paris, kills 13yo girl & severely injures others
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A man has driven a car into a pizzeria in the French commune of Sept-Sorts, Seine-et-Marne, killing an 12-year-old girl and injuring at least five other people, police say. A 13-year-old girl has been killed after a man deliberately plowed his car into a pizzeria in the French commune of Sept-Sorts, Seine-et-Marneinto. The arrested 32-year-old suspect, authorities believe, was suicidal with no terrorism related tendencies.
On Monday night, the man driving a dark-colored BMW, slammed his vehicle into the sidewalk cafe in Sept-Sorts, a small commune east of Paris, where patrons of Pizzeria Cesena were having dinner. Photos reportedly from the scene and circulated on social media, show smashed tables and chairs while the car can be seen inside the restaurant.
Authorities announced that a 13-year-old girl was killed while her younger brother sustained life-threatening injuries in the tragic incident.
The BMW with tinted windows crashed into a terrace of the pizzeria Monday evening, BFM TV reports. Photos reportedly from the scene, circulating on social media, show smashed tables and chairs, while the car can be seen inside the restaurant. Authorities initially said the victim was 8-years-old, but later revised the girl’s age to 13. France’s interior ministry spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, told BFM TV that four other people were seriously injured and are in a condition of “absolute emergency.” Another eight people sustained light injuries.
“The driver has no legal record, he was likely depressed,” Pierre-Henry Brandet, a spokesman for French interior ministry said, adding that the initial findings indicated the incident was not terrorism-related. Authorities have detained the 32-year-old suspect. Brandet noted that the French driver, whose identity has not yet been released, was suffering from depression at the time of the incident following a failed suicide attempt last week.
The suspect made a suicide attempt Sunday, a judicial source told the Le Dauphiné libéré newspaper. “The driver has no legal record, he was likely depressed,” Brandet said, adding that initial findings indicated that the incident was not terrorism-related.
“He might have decided to try it again,” the source said. “The first elements do not go in the direction of a track, of a terrorist action,” Brandet told BFM adding that the act was “undoubtedly deliberate.”
The national gendarmerie has urged people to allow the rescue work go on and to not hinder the operation in progress. Earlier, the prosecutor's office also noted that the attack was “deliberate” but had “nothing to do with a terrorist act.”
Eyewitness reports indicate that the driver tried to flee the scene. Meanwhile, a judicial source told BFM, that the assailant’s first statements “make it possible to dismiss the terrorist track.” The source added the suspect had “tried to put an end to his life days [earlier] without success.”
“The car tried to back off, but someone stood behind to stop it,” a witness told RMC. The suspect made a suicide attempt Sunday, a judicial source told the Le Dauphiné libéré newspaper. “He might have decided to try it again,” the source said.
Authorities are continuing to question the suspect.