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Tour de France: Police fire at car in Paris square ahead of race | 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 security barrier for the Tour de France, which ends in Paris later. | |
The incident took place on the Champs-Elysees at about 08:00 local time, as the barriers were being put out. | |
Officers opened fire on the car but the suspect drove away. The car was later found abandoned nearby. | |
There is no suggestion of terrorism as a motive, according to the BBC's Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield. | |
He says the car first hit a parked vehicle in the Place de la Concorde. | He says the car first hit a parked vehicle in the Place de la Concorde. |
The driver then 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 the driver could have been a reveller returning from a night out. | |
Two men and two women were reported to have been seen leaving the bullet-riddled car. | |
Tour de France race director Thierry Gouvenou said he did not foresee any impact on the race, which British cyclist Chris Froome is set to win. | |
Security in the French capital was heightened in the wake of the jihadist attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and elsewhere which killed 17 people. |