Driver arrested after trying to ram a car into crowd of people outside Paris mosque

A man has been arrested after trying to ram a car into a crowd of people in front of a mosque in Paris, police have said.

No one was injured in the attack in the Parisian suburb of Creteil.

According to Le Parisien newspaper, the man - understood to have been of Armenian origin - said he had wanted to avenge attacks linked to the Islamic State.

Paris police said he tried to flee the scene on foot, but was arrested. Test showed he was neither under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

He was also thwarted by other motorists driving into his path.

The man cited the November 2015 attack on the Bataclan nightclub in which 90 people died and an incident earlier this month when a heavily armed driver died in a botched suicide attack at the Champs-Elysées roundabout


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/29/car-drives-crowd-people-outside-french-mosque/

When will this end?

Glad no one was hurt

magica wrote:When will this end?

Glad no one was hurt

It just seems to be getting worse but at least he was stopped and like you say. At least nobody was hurt

This seems to be a fairly recent phenomenon, randomly using a car as a weapon of destruction.
Anyone with a grudge who has access to a vehicle can cause mayhem, its horrible.

yep so take up my suggestion and make having a car licence as strict as a firearms licence....

Syl wrote:This seems to be a fairly recent phenomenon, randomly using a car as a weapon of destruction.
Anyone with a grudge who has access to a vehicle can cause mayhem, its horrible.

Terrorism[edit]

In chronological order:

• 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing, Beirut, Lebanon (not ramming pedestrians: ramming a specific building then exploding)
  
  
• 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, Lebanon (building ramming + exploding)
  
  
• 2001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly car bombing (building gate ramming + exploding + gunfire)
  
  
• 2002 Lyon car attack, France (building ramming + fire)
  
  
• 2006 UNC SUV attack, University of North Carolina, United States (ramming people)
  
  
• 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, Scotland (building ramming + detonating gas cylinders)
  
  
• 2008 Jerusalem vehicular attack, Israel (ramming people)
  
  
• 2008 Jerusalem bulldozer attack, Israel (ramming people)
  
  
• 2011 Tel Aviv nightclub attack, Israel (ramming + stabbing)
  
  
• Murder of Lee Rigby, London, May 2013 (ramming + stabbing)
  
  
• 2013 Tiananmen Square attack, China (ramming people + bursting into flames)
  
  
• May 2014 Ürümqi attack, China (ramming + throwing bombs off the vehicle)
  
  
• 2014 Jerusalem tractor attack, Israel (ramming people + bus)
  
  
• 2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack, Canada (ramming)
  
  
• October 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack, Israel (ramming people)
  
  
• November 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack, Israel (ramming + hitting with a metal crowbar)
  
  
• 2014 Alon Shvut stabbing attack, West Bank (failed ramming + stabbing)
  
  
• 2014 Dijon attack, France (ramming people)
  
  
• 2014 Nantes attack, France (ramming people)
  
  
• 2016 Nice attack, France (ramming people + gunfire)
  
  
• 2016 Ohio State University attack, United States (ramming + stabbing)
  
  
• 2016 Berlin attack, Germany (shooting truck driver + ramming people)
  
  
• 2017 Jerusalem truck attack, Israel (ramming people)
  
  
• 2017 Westminster attack, United Kingdom (ramming + stabbing; some victims were thrown off Westminster Bridge by the ramming)
  
  
• 2017 Stockholm attack, Sweden (ramming people)
  
  
• June 2017 London Bridge attack, United Kingdom (ramming + stabbing).^[27]
  
  
• 2017 Finsbury Park attack, London, (ramming people)
  
  
• June 2017 Champs-Élysées car ramming attack
  
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack

By that list alone its remarkable how this sort of attack has escalated over the last few months, especially in Europe..

Lord Foul wrote:yep so take up my suggestion and make having a car licence as strict as a firearms licence....

I doubt that would work. If someone is prepared to randomly murder innocent people and possibly kill themselves whilst they are at it, I doubt whether not having a driving licence would be a deterrent.

You don't need a driving licence to drive a car into people, anyone can do it.

Cars are weapons and in the wrong hands they kill. Can't stop everyone driving because of it.

no you cant stop EVERYONE from driving but, you CAN apply the same considerations when giving licences...

as in references, medical info on a continuous basis, (so if someone develops depression bang goes their licence) and interview by police, background checks etc....

you could then apply the same consideration of security for vehicles as applies to guns....


oh dear...I forgot.....THAT would be terribly inconvenient wouldnt it.......

and involve YOU (the public) in taking some responsibility

oh dear we cant have that can we......