2024-07-17 20:40:48
One person died and six others were injured, three of them at high speed, when a car crashed this Wednesday, accidentally according to the police, into the terrace of a cafe in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
The driver of the car, who fled on foot after the accident, was finally caught in the afternoon and taken into custody, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The incident took place around 7:30 pm on Wednesday. nine days before the start of the Paris Olympicson the terrace of Le Ramus bar, on the calm and peace of Père-Lachaise.
The driver has been arrested for “involuntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter and endangerment,” according to the prosecutor’s office. The investigation has been handed over to the STJA (Service du Traitement Judiciaire des Accidents – Accident Investigation Service).
Although researchers rule out the possibility of an attackThis tragedy is reminiscent of the attacks of November 13, 2015, some of which were targeted in the east of Paris. These events took place less than ten days before the opening of the Olympic Games, which in all day about 35,000 policemen and gendarmes and. 18,000 French troops arrived.
From 5 am on Wednesday until July 26, the internal security and terrorism area (SILT) will work in Paris around the banks of the Seine to prepare for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2024 Some 326,000 spectators will attend the opening ceremony on the Seine on July 26, the first in the history of the Games to be held outside the Olympic and Paralympic stadium in Paris “has not been specifically targeted by terrorist groups” the country’s terrorist prosecutor, Olivier Christian. , said on Tuesday, although he stressed the “intensification” of the terrorist threat for “all of France.”
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