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| Tour de France: Police fire at car in Paris square ahead of race | |
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| Police in France are searching for the driver of a vehicle that tried to crash through a barricade for the Tour de France which ends in Paris later. | Police in France are searching for the driver of a vehicle that tried to crash through a barricade for the Tour de France which ends in Paris later. |
| The incident on the Champs-Elysees took place at about 08:00 local time as the security barriers were beginning to go up. | |
| Officers opened fire on the car to try to stop it but it drove away. | Officers opened fire on the car to try to stop it but it drove away. |
| BBC Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reports there is no suggestion of terrorism as a motive. | BBC Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reports there is no suggestion of terrorism as a motive. |
| He says the car first hit a parked vehicle in the Place de la Concorde. | |
| Trying to speed away, the driver tried to pass through a police cordon that was being put in place ahead of the final stage of the tour. | |
| There was no exchange of fire and our correspondent suggests it could have been a reveller driving home from a night out. | |
| Tour de France race director Thierry Gouvenou told AP he did not foresee any impact on the race. |