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Sunday, July 26, 2015
Police fire at car near Tour de France finish
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice in France are searching for the driver of a car that smashed through a security barrier in central Paris close to the finishing line of cycling’s Tour de France.
Officials said police shot at the car in an attempt to stop it after it sped away from a nearby checkpoint as officers tried to redirect traffic away from roads closed for the end of the epic race.
The incident occurred at the Place de Concorde at the end of the famous Champs Elysees, where the world’s greatest cycling race is to finish later Sunday.
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No one is believed to have been hit, and police stressed there had been no exchange of fire.
Security in the French capital has been heightened for months following jihadist attacks which claimed 17 lives that began with the massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
— AFP
The Times of Israel Community.