Man crashes car into Paris pizzeria, killing 8-year-old girl and injuring at least 5
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PARIS (AP) — French police say an 8-year-old girl was killed and at least five people were injured when a driver slammed his car into the sidewalk cafe of a pizza restaurant in a small town east of Paris.
An official with the national gendarme service said the driver was arrested soon after the incident Monday night in Sept-Sorts, a town about 40 miles east of Paris.
French officials say the driver clearly acted intentionally, but they have no reason so far to suspect a terrorist motive.
A judicial official said Monday night that the Paris prosecutor’s office, which oversees French terrorism investigations, was not involved in the case because there was no proof of terrorism at this stage.
A security official said there is no evidence of a political or Islamic extremist motive.
But both officials say authorities view the driver’s actions as intentional. They were not authorized to be publicly named.
Several other countries have seen cars used as weapons in recent years. An Algerian man drove his car into a group of French soldiers last week, and a truck attack in the French city of Nice left 86 people dead a little more than a year ago.
In Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, a 20-year-old man drove his car into counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally, killing one woman and injuring 19 others.
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