Sept-Sorts car attack

Sept-Sorts car attack
Sept-Sorts
Location Sept-Sorts, Seine-et-Marne, France
Coordinates 48°33′42″N 3°03′40″E / 48.5616°N 3.0611°E / 48.5616; 3.0611Coordinates: 48°33′42″N 3°03′40″E / 48.5616°N 3.0611°E / 48.5616; 3.0611
Date 14 August 2017
8:15 pm
Attack type
 Vehicular attack
Weapons BMW vehicle
Deaths 1
Non-fatal injuries
 12
Perpetrator David Patterson

On 14 August 2017, a car delibrately rammed into a busy pizzeria restaurant in Sept-Sorts, a village about 55 kilometres (34 mi) east from Paris, France. The attack resulted in the death of a 13-year-old girl and injuries to 12 people.[1]

Attack

The driver was in a BMW vehicle and smashed into the terrace of Cesena Pizzeria, where there were 20 people dining. The driver then tried to reverse, but was stopped.[2] The gendarmes soon arrived at the scene and arrested the driver.[3]

Suspect and investigation

The suspect was later identified as 32-year-old David Patterson, a psychologically unstable and suicidal man thought to have links to the United Kingdom but a French national.[4] He was not known to the police and acted alone, and the attack was not terror related. Patterson lived with his parents in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre and was thought to have been a cannabis smoker since the age of nine. French President Emmanuel Macron sent his condolences to the victims via Twitter.[5] The attack came just five days after another car ramming attack in Paris that injured six people (see Levallois-Perret attack).

References

  1. ↑ "Car rams French pizzeria killing girl". 15 August 2017 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "'Suicidal driver high on drugs' kills girl, 13, after 'deliberately' ploughing into pizzeria near Paris". 15 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Willsher, Kim (14 August 2017). "Girl dies after car 'deliberately' driven into pizzeria near Paris". the Guardian.
  4. ↑ "Driver who rammed car into crowded Paris pizzeria killing girl, 12, is a 'manic depressive cannabis smoker with links to Britain'". 15 August 2017.
  5. ↑ CNN, Saskya Vandoorne and Susannah Cullinane,. "French pizzeria rammed by car; one dead".
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