Crash into Paris pizzeria ‘not believed to be terror-related’

Girl (8) killed and four people injured after man drove into restaurant

An official said a driver was arrested after the car he was driving rammed into a restaurant in Paris, killing a young girl. Photograph: iStock
An official said a driver was arrested after the car he was driving rammed into a restaurant in Paris, killing a young girl. Photograph: iStock

A man who drove his car into a French pizzeria was apparently suicidal and the incident is not believed linked to terrorism, the Interior Ministry says.

Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said on BFM television that the man was born in 1985 and was believed to have tried to kill himself last week.

Mr Brandet said a young girl was killed and four people were injured in a condition of “absolute emergency”.

He said eight others were slightly injured.

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The man was arrested soon after the attack on Monday night in the town of Sept-Sorts, east of Paris.

A police official said the man was psychologically unstable and had no police record.

The official says investigators are not searching for accomplices.

PA