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| Girl dies after car ‘deliberately’ driven into pizzeria near Paris | |
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| A 13-year-old girl has been killed and at least five people injured after a car ploughed into the outdoor terrace of a pizza restaurant in a town east of Paris, French police have said. | |
| Police said the BMW was “deliberately” used to attack the restaurant in a shopping centre at Sept-Sorts, in the Seine-et-Marne region east of Paris. | |
| An official with the national gendarme service said the driver was arrested soon after the incident on Monday in the town of Sept-Sorts. | |
| A witness told BFMTV: “A car drove into the terrace and crashed into the bar. The driver tried to reverse but someone stopped them. The gendarmes arrived quickly. There were around 20 people in the restaurant.” | A witness told BFMTV: “A car drove into the terrace and crashed into the bar. The driver tried to reverse but someone stopped them. The gendarmes arrived quickly. There were around 20 people in the restaurant.” |
| A judicial official said 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 said authorities view the driver’s actions as a deliberate act. | |
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