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Man attacks soldiers guarding French mosque with his car

A soldier and one passerby were reportedly injured in the incident, which took place this afternoon as troops stood guard outside a mosque in the southeastern French city of Valence.

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French paper Le Dauphine said the soldiers shot the man at approximately 2.50pm after he drove at them with his auto.


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Daragon said that the man wasn’t immediately identified, and his motives were being investigated.


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And he warned that the authorities must be “extremely prudent about the motive” of the attack.

An investigation is now underway.

Attacks in Paris on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket killed 17 people in January 2015, with a series of coordinated shootings and bombings in the city in November leaving 130 people dead and 350 wounded.

Soldiers have been deployed to protect potential targets across the country such as official buildings and religious sites. A driver barreled into a crowd in Nantes, near the Atlantic coast, striking 10 people, just days after a man used his vehicle to ram into small groups of people in Dijon, east of Paris. The case hasn’t been resolved.

“The four soldiers were in front of the mosque, a moderate, quiet mosque, in between two prayer sessions, at a time when many worshippers arrived”, Daragon said.

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