Two people were killed Sunday evening in Paris after a vehicle ran into police,
Le Figaro
learned from a police source.
The facts took place on the Pont-Neuf, in the center of the capital.
According to the first elements collected, according to this same police source, the vehicle was traveling in the wrong direction when the police wanted to control it.
The police used their administrative weapons, added the police source.
The two people killed are the occupants of the vehicle.
A third passenger was injured.
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The police tried to control the driver of a car parked near the Vert Galant square, on the Pont Neuf, a witness on the spot told
Le Figaro
.
The driver would then have started hastily in the direction of the police, at high speed, according to our information.
The police fired immediately.
The police enforce a security perimeter at the level of the Pont Neuf and the Quai des Orfèvres.
An investigation is underway, the magistrate is moving to the scene, said a police source.
The IGPN has been seized.
