Vehicle hits soldiers in Paris suburb, injuring 6

LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France (AP) — French police are searching for a  driver who slammed his BMW into a group of soldiers in a Paris suburb  Wednesday, injuring six of them in what appeared to be a carefully timed  ambush before speeding away, officials said.

The driver’s motive is unclear, but officials said he deliberately  aimed at the soldiers, and counterterrorism authorities opened an  investigation. It is the latest of several attacks targeting security  forces guarding France over the past year. While others have targeted  prominent sites like the Eiffel Tower, Wednesday’s attack hit a leafy,  relatively affluent suburb that is home to France’s main intelligence  service, the DGSI.

Three of the soldiers suffered light injuries while three were more  seriously injured, but their lives are not in danger, according to the  Defense Ministry.

They were from the 35th infantry regiment and served in Operation Sentinelle, created to guard prominent French sites after a string of  deadly Islamic extremist attacks in 2015.

Witnesses described seeing a BMW with one person inside waiting in a  cul-de-sac near a building used for Sentinelle soldiers, according to  two police officials. One official said the attacker hit just as a group  of soldiers emerged from the building to board vehicles for a new  shift.

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