{"id":73876,"date":"2017-08-09T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T12:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73876"},"modified":"2017-08-09T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T13:11:28","slug":"french-soldiers-mowed-down-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73876","title":{"rendered":"French soldiers mowed down in attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver plowed his car into a group of French soldiers in Paris this morning, three of whom are seriously injured, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/08\/09\/at-least-6-injured-after-vehicle-slams-into-group-soldiers-in-paris-suburb-police-say.html\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The soldiers were part of the 35th infantry regiment in the suburb of Saint-Mande and were leaving their barracks just after 8 a.m. when the attack occurred. France&#8217;s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told reporters the driver targeted the soldiers in a calculated car attack. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The driver escaped along with his car. The French law enforcement considers the attack to be a terrorist attack;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Minister Florence Parly condemned the attack, calling it &#8220;a cowardly act with the utmost firmness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The service members were part of Op\u00e9ration Sentinelle, an anti-terrorism operation that was created after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The mission&#8217;s aim is to protect civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Collomb said Wednesday&#8217;s car attack marks the sixth time soldiers with the Sentinelle operation have been targeted. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/french-police-arrest-1-in-manhunt-for-attacker-1.482065#.WYsJC-mQyUk\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that a person suspected to be the driver has been arrested;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Two officials said it is too early to say for certain that the man was the driver who rammed a car into soldiers in Levallois on Wednesday. Six soldiers were injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>One of the officials said the arrest was violent, and police opened fire on the suspect. The other official said the arrest took place on the A16 highway when the man was stopped as police hunted for cars suspected of involvement in the attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver plowed his car into a group of French soldiers in Paris this morning, three &hellip; <a title=\"French soldiers mowed down in attack\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73876\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French soldiers mowed down in attack<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}