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France Dijon: Driver targets city pedestrians | France Dijon: Driver targets city pedestrians |
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A driver shouting the Islamic phrase "God is great" in Arabic has run down pedestrians in Dijon, France, injuring 11, two seriously, French media say. | |
He was arrested after targeting pedestrians in five different parts of the city in the space of half an hour. | |
He is said to be "apparently imbalanced" and to have spent time in a psychiatric hospital. | |
French police shot dead a man on Saturday after he attacked them with a knife, also shouting "God is great". | French police shot dead a man on Saturday after he attacked them with a knife, also shouting "God is great". |
The lives of the two people seriously injured in Dijon are not said to be in danger. | The lives of the two people seriously injured in Dijon are not said to be in danger. |
Witnesses told police the driver, aged around 40, had also said he was "acting for the children of Palestine", an unnamed source close to the investigation told AFP news agency. | |
'Solidarity' | |
A spokesman for the interior ministry told French TV he believed the attacker had been acting alone. | |
The driver has been known to police for minor incidents dating back 20 years, he added. | |
The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, tweeted (in French) to express his "solidarity" with the victims. | |
In Saturday's incident, a man injured three police officers in the city of Tours before being shot dead. | |
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told French TV the man had been "very unstable". | |
Anti-terrorism investigators have opened an inquiry into the attack. | |
France has the largest number of Muslims in western Europe - estimated at between five and six million. | |
There have been a number of "lone wolf" attacks by Islamists in recent years |