Terror Attack at Champs Elysees in Paris

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A wannabe terrorist lies unconscious in central Paris after police stipped him down to check for suicide vest.

A car has crashed into a police van before bursting into flames around the Champs Élysées area of central Paris just hours after a terror attack attempt in London.

The driver died in the incident. Police found a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles in the car.

Police say the situation is now under control, and neither law enforcement officers nor civilians were injured.

France is under a state of emergency after being hit by a wave of deadly terror attacks in recent years.

A policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in an attack on the Champs Élysées in April, just days before the presidential election.

Video below shows the dead terrorists stripped by police who check his body for explosives.

 

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France’s anti-terror prosecutor has opened an investigation after a car carrying firearms and a gas canister rammed into a police van on the Champs-Élysées in central Paris.

The French interior minister, Gérard Collomb, said the driver of the car was killed in what he described as “an attempted attack” on a convoy of police vehicles on the avenue, the scene of two terror attacks in three months.

Police sources told French media the attacker was a 31-year-old French national from the Paris suburb of Argenteuil whose name was on a terror watchlist because of his known links with suspected extremists.

Collomb said arms and a gas canister were found in the car. Police sources said the weapons included handguns and an AK47 assault rifle. Bomb disposal experts were at the scene.

Collomb told reporters the attempted attack on security forces showed the terror threat was “still very high in our country” and justified extending to November the state of emergency France has been under since late 2015.

No other injuries, including to the police officers inside the van, were reported in the ramming, which a police source told BFM TV resembled a “kamikaze attack”.

Eric Favereau, a journalist with the newspaper Libération who was on a motorbike behind the convoy, said he saw the police vans at a standstill near the Grand Palais exhibition hall and a car blocking their path, followed by an explosion.

Faverau said he saw flames coming from the car and police smashing its windows and dragging the driver out. He said some police then fired on the man while others used fire extinguishers to put out the blaze.