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CAEN: French police arrested a Russian man of Chechen origin after a deliberate car ramming in the north of the country killed two men, both believed to be Afghans, and wounded nine others, officials said on Thursday.
The car ploughed into a group of people gathered outside a bar on Wednesday in the Normandy city of Caen, said the Calvados department prefect David Claviere. The events occurred after a fight, according to a police source, when the 26-year-old suspect was set upon by several people.
He returned with his car, driving onto a bus lane in front of Caen train station and deliberately drove into the men and other people standing under a bus shelter, a police source said.
The Caen prosecutor’s office said there was no apparent terrorist motive. The suspect, lawfully residing in France, was not known to intelligence services and had never been convicted of a crime, according to authorities.
