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A man has rammed his car into a group of students outside a French high school near Toulouse, injuring three people. | A man has rammed his car into a group of students outside a French high school near Toulouse, injuring three people. |
Police arrested the 28-year-old driver outside the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Blagnac. He was reported to be “known to police” but not on the Fiche S security-risk list. | Police arrested the 28-year-old driver outside the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Blagnac. He was reported to be “known to police” but not on the Fiche S security-risk list. |
Europe 1 radio reported that the man had told police he “received orders” to do what he did. | Europe 1 radio reported that the man had told police he “received orders” to do what he did. |
All three of the victims students from China. A 23-year-old woman was the most seriously injured. Two men aged 22 and 23 were also hurt. The woman’s life is not in danger, police said. | |
The suspect had previously suffered severe psychiatric problems and was released from a court-ordered hospital stay in December 2016, the Toulouse prosecutor said. | |
The man had about 10 previous convictions, the prosecutor told the BFMTV news channel. | |
The investigation is to be handled by regular judicial police rather than Paris’s anti-terror unit, he said. BFMTV said the man was known to police for previous non-terror crimes. |