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A car loaded with gas canisters has rammed into a police van on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, leaving the driver dead in what the interior minister is calling an "attempted attack". Police sources earlier tell AFP that a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles were found in the vehicle. IMAGES of security forces at the scene // ACCOMPANIES VID1044324_EN
A car loaded with gas canisters has rammed into a police van on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, leaving the driver dead in what the interior minister is calling an "attempted attack". Police sources earlier tell AFP that a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles were found in the vehicle. IMAGES of attacker's body and police at scene of attack // ACCOMPANIES VID1044324_EN / VID1044350_EN
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin pays tribute to the victims of an attack on October 3rd, 2019 at a police station, which left four dead and one injured, during a ceremony at the Paris police headquarters. IMAGES
In a press briefing during a visit to a synagogue in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt for the Jewish feast of Yom Kippur, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin declared that "we are at war against Islamic terrorism" and considered that "perhaps we have collectively put it a little behind us", two days after the cleaver attack in Paris. SOUNDBITE
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin lays a wreath at a ceremony in homage to the victims of the attack of 14 July 2016 in Nice, which killed 86 people. IMAGES
One year after the attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner travelled to the city for the this year's opening of the famous annual festive fair. The minister was given a tour of the "enhanced" security measures in place around France's most famous Christmas market. IMAGES
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