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A driver shouting the Islamic phrase “God is great” (Allahu Akbar) has run down pedestrians in Dijon, France, injuring 11, two seriously, French media say.
He was arrested after targeting pedestrians in five different parts of the city in the space of half an hour.
He is said to be “apparently imbalanced” and to have spent time in a psychiatric hospital.
The lives of the two people seriously injured in Dijon are not said to be in danger.
Witnesses told police that the driver, aged around 40, had also said he was “acting for the children of Palestine”, an unnamed source close to the investigation told AFP news agency.
The incident came a day after a man stabbed three police officers in central France while allegedly calling out the same phrase.
French police shot dead a man on Saturday after he attacked them with a knife, also shouting “God is great”.
The stabbing attack is being investigated by French counter-terrorism authorities.
French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, acknowledged those affected by the violence.
“Support for the gravely injured and shocked police officers in Tours,” he wrote on Twitter. “Those who attack them will have to face up to the severity of the state.”
Regarding Dijon, he voiced “solidarity” with the victims and support for their families.
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