AN ALGERIAN man is under armed guard in an intensive care unit tonight after six soldiers were mown down with a hired BMW in a Paris suburb.

The suspect, identified by the Le Parisien newspaper as Hamou Bachir, a 36-year-old Algerian, was hit by FIVE police bullets after initially escaping the scene of the crime at Levallois-Perret.

The attacker – who targeted the troops near the headquarters of France’s anti-terror unit – was arrested on the A16 highway near the port town of Boulogne-sur-Mer.

One police officer was also shot and wounded during the arrest, according to local media.

The suspect was driving a dark BMW in the “odious” hit-and-run attack in the north-west of the capital which left three victims with serious injuries.

It is meant to be one of the most secure towns in France, as it contains the headquarters of the DGSI (General Directorate for Internal Security), the country’s main counter-terrorism intelligence agency.

Bachir  – who also uses the name Benlatreche – ploughed into a uniformed and heavily armed unit of the 35th Infantry Regiment as they took part in Operation Sentinel.

The security initiative was set up in 2015 following a series of atrocities in Paris carried out by Islamic State and Al-Qaeda operatives.

“I heard a huge crash which I thought was the sound of scaffolding being put up,” said Thierry Chappe, an eyewitness to today’s attack.

“Then I saw soldiers scattered all over the ground”.
Local mayor Patrick Balkany, who is also an MP, said the black BMW 2 Series was seen waiting to attack a temporary barracks.

“Terrorists – there’s no other word,” said Mr Balkany.

“The soldiers were taken by surprise. They did not have a chance.”

Bachir was not known to the security services, but was subject to a “foreigner infraction” notice, and faced deportation to Algeria, the North African country that used to be French colony.

He was lurking as two three-man patrols swapped shifts, and then he approached them slowly “before speeding up,” said Mr Balkany.

Three of the troops were badly hurt, and taken to a nearby military hospital, while the others were treated at the scene.

“The attacker didn’t say a single word and did not fire any guns,” said an Armed Forces ministry spokesman in Paris.

The spokesman said that the BMW – with only one man a white shirt inside – was then seen racing away.

Its number plate was picked up by video surveillance cameras, enabling police to establish that it was a hire car with an integrated GPS system.

This meant tracking by was relatively straightforward, and by early afternoon it was spotted on the A16 motorway, as it raced towards Calais, some 180 miles away.

Two specialist firearms units from Lille and Rouen engaged at 1.30pm close to Boulogne-sur-Mer.

They stopped the BMW at a Total service station, and told him to get out of the car with his hands up.

Instead, the suspect is thought to have a made ‘a sudden movement’ as if he was taking a gun out, and then he tried to escape.

“He was hit by five police bullets, while an officer received a slight wound to his thigh,” said another source close to the case, indicating that the suspect was unarmed.

“The man was severely wounded, and taken to intensive care in a nearby hospital. He is under close guard,” said the same source.

There are 10,000 soldiers patrolling France as part of Operation Sentinel, and 4,700 police and gendarmes.France remains under a State of Emergency following a long string of attacks, including an attempt to kill a soldier at the Eiffel Tower on Saturday.

The 19-year-old psychiatric patient is in custody after he brandished a knife and pledged allegiance to ISIS.

In April, 39-year-old police officers Xavier Jugele was shot dead while on duty on the Champs Elysee just days before the French presidential election.

ISIS claimed the killing by Karim Cheurfi, also 39, who was shot dead by police in a gun battle. Two other officers were injured in the attack.

In June an Algerian student shouted ‘This is for Syria’ as he tried to attack a policeman with a hammer outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He was shot and ended up in custody in hospital.

And in March a convicted criminal with links to radical Islam shouted  "I am here to die for Allah, there will be deaths" seconds before he was shot dead during an attack at Paris Orly airport.

Ziyed Ben Belgacem, a 39-year-old career criminal, was killed after wrestling a soldier's gun from her and fleeing into a McDonald's restaurant.

It followed the shooting in February of a man outside the Louvre museum in the heart of Paris after he attempted to storm the historic art gallery.

Anti-terrorism prosecutors have opened an enquiry into today’s attack.

The assailant will be questioned at length "when his condition allows2, said an Interior Ministry spokesman.

The injured troops  were part of Operational Sentinelle, a security initiative set up following attacks by ISIS on Paris.

The "high speed" attack - which French counter-terrorism prosecutors are investigating - happened just after 8am local time today in the centre of Levallois-Perret.

Three of the infantrymen were seriously injured while the others were “lightly hurt.”

The French Defense Ministry has confirmed none of the wounded soldiers' lives are in danger.

The attack happened as a three-soldier night patrol handed over their duties to a day patrol of the same number, said local council spokesman David-Xavier Weiss.

He said: "The arrangement of the square meant that the attacker did not have enough of a run-up to cause more damage."

He confirmed the men were standing next to a temporary barracks set up by the council for soldiers taking part in Operation Sentinel.

The municipal building is less that a mile from the anti-terrorist HQ.

A security perimeter has now been set up around the area, with shops and homes evacuated, and a local park shut.


Police say authorities are checking CCTV of the area near the city hall of Levallois to identify the vehicle and hunt the driver responsible for the shocking assault.

The officials said witnesses described seeing a BMW with one person inside waiting in a cul-de-sac near the building used for soldiers.

A witness described hearing an ear-piercing scream of pain and seeing troops chasing after a speeding car.

Nadia LeProhon was startled by a loud crash outside her building and rushed outside to see two soldiers on the ground.

Other soldiers ran after a speeding car, shouting "After him. Follow that car.”

She said the scream that followed the crash was still echoing through her head. "I'll never forget that scream a scream of pain and distress.”

Another local resident said one of the soldiers on the ground was unconscious.

One witness said he "heard shouts, including insults being aimed at the soldiers."


The man, who asked not to be named, added: "There was a lot of engine revving and then the soldiers scattered."

Residents of Levallois-Perret are so accustomed to seeing security forces that resident Roseline Bailleux thought Wednesday's attack was an exercise.

Bailleux, 67, was one of several people who said that the street where the soldiers were hit was nearly always thronged with soldiers.

She was woken in the morning by her husband, who had noticed a crush of ambulances and emergency vehicles.

"We thought it was an exercise," she said.

There are 10,000 soldiers patrolling France as part of Opération Sentinelle, and 4,700 police and gendarmes.

Balkany said the seriously wounded had been taken to Percy hospital in the south west of Paris.

By 10am local time, the suspect car was still unaccounted for, as hundreds of other servicemen were brought into the operation to track it down.

Troops and police officers have been regularly attacked in Paris in recent months by brainwashed jihadists carrying out depraved terror attacks.

Patrols have been stepped up around Levallois-Perret, because it contains the HQ of France’s anti-terrorist sub-directorate (SDAT).

This is the French judicial police service at the heart of the operation to prevent terrorist attacks.

France has been under a State of Emergency since the horrific attacks in November 2015 which left 130 innocent people dead.

On Saturday, a teenager was arrested after attempting to kill a soldier at the Eiffel Tower.

The 19-year-old psychiatric patient is in custody after he brandished a knife and pledged allegiance to terror cult ISIS.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said the security threat to France remained ‘at its highest level’.

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