I've been watching this story evolve as at first, it just a car hitting a Police vehicle.
Paris suspect was on terror watchlist.
'A man who died after driving into a police vehicle on the Champs-Elysees in Paris was on a
terror watchlist, according to sources close to the investigation.
The 31-year-old suspect had been monitored since 2015 for membership of a 'radical Islamist
movement'.
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Gerard Collomb, France's interior minister, told reporters near the scene the man intended to
attack the security forces and that the car was carrying explosives.
Police sources told Agence France-Presse that a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles
were found in the suspect's white Renault Megane.
The car is described as having gone up in flames after the attempted ramming.
Reports suggest the attacker was badly burned.
Police have asked the public to avoid the area while their security operation is ongoing.
Two metro stations on the Champs-Elysees, one of the city's most popular neighbourhoods for
tourists, have been closed. Associated Press cited an eyewitness account by a journalist for French
newspaper Liberation, Eric Favereau, who was driving a scooter behind a gendarmes convoy.
Mr Favereau said he saw a car blocking the convoy's path and then an implosion in the vehicle.
The gendarmes broke open the windows and pulled the occupant from inside, while others attempted
to extinguish the flames...'
SOURCE:
Paris suspect was on terror watchlist.
'A man who died after driving into a police vehicle on the Champs-Elysees in Paris was on a
terror watchlist, according to sources close to the investigation.
The 31-year-old suspect had been monitored since 2015 for membership of a 'radical Islamist
movement'.
Gerard Collomb, France's interior minister, told reporters near the scene the man intended to
attack the security forces and that the car was carrying explosives.
Police sources told Agence France-Presse that a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles
were found in the suspect's white Renault Megane.
The car is described as having gone up in flames after the attempted ramming.
Reports suggest the attacker was badly burned.
Police have asked the public to avoid the area while their security operation is ongoing.
Two metro stations on the Champs-Elysees, one of the city's most popular neighbourhoods for
tourists, have been closed. Associated Press cited an eyewitness account by a journalist for French
newspaper Liberation, Eric Favereau, who was driving a scooter behind a gendarmes convoy.
Mr Favereau said he saw a car blocking the convoy's path and then an implosion in the vehicle.
The gendarmes broke open the windows and pulled the occupant from inside, while others attempted
to extinguish the flames...'
SOURCE:
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