Dijon: a driver bearing down on passersby to the cry of "Allahu Akbar"


"Probably unbalanced" man "deliberately" injured eleven passersby yesterday in the capital of Burgundy, two more seriously but their prognosis does not seem committed according to medical services.


According to a source close to the investigation quoted by AFP, "the individual was born in 1974. He has a heavy profile with psychiatric treatment according to the Prefect of Côte d'Or but his claims" still seem fuzzy " .


Known to the police for ordinary facts dating back to the 1990s, he was arrested after a chase in a Clio and placed in custody.


Yesterday evening around 20h, it hit passers in several places of the city around the Place Wilson according to the daily Le Bien Public information, confirmed by the prefecture. The scene lasted nearly half an hour.


According to testimony gathered by the police, the man, wearing a jilbab, "Allahu Akbar shouted and said that he acted for the children of Palestine."


The Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve had to go to Dijon today to take stock of the situation which occurs after the attack Saturday against police officers of Indre-et-Loire also by a man shouting "God is the greatest "in Arabic.


No information for now nevertheless to link the two cases in the French authorities.






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