21 December 2014 Last
updated at 23:36 GMT
France Dijon: Driver targets city pedestrians
The driver targeted
people at five locations in Dijon
A driver shouting the
Islamic phrase "God is great" in Arabic has run down pedestrians in
Dijon, France, injuring 11, two seriously, French media say.
He was arrested after
targeting pedestrians in five different parts of the city in the space of half
an hour.
He is said to be
"apparently imbalanced" and to have spent time in a psychiatric
hospital.
French police shot
dead a man on Saturday after he attacked them with a knife, also shouting
"God is great".
The lives of the two
people seriously injured in Dijon are not said to be in danger.
Witnesses told police
the driver, aged around 40, had also said he was "acting for the children
of Palestine", an unnamed source close to the investigation told AFP news
agency.
'Solidarity'
A spokesman for the
interior ministry told French TV he believed the attacker had been acting
alone.
The French Prime
Minister, Manuel Valls, tweeted (in French) to
express his "solidarity" with the victims.
In Saturday's
incident, a man injured three police officers in the city of Tours before being
shot dead.
Interior Minister
Bernard Cazeneuve told French TV the man had been "very unstable".
Anti-terrorism
investigators have opened an inquiry into the attack.
France has the largest
number of Muslims in western Europe - estimated at between five and six
million.
There have been a
number of "lone wolf" attacks by Islamists in recent years
·
The main suspect in the murder of four people at a
Belgian museum this year is a French-born man who
spent a year fighting in Syria
·
In 2012, Mohammed Merah shot dead seven
people in the city of Toulouse before
being killed himself in a police siege.
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