Police fired shots in the Tour de France race course – Aftenposten

The offender is on the run.

Sun ends three-week race Tour de France Champs-Elysees in Paris.

Now reports Sky News that French police have fired shots at a car on the Place de la Concorde. The car should have been trying to get through a confinement near the target area of ​​the French capital.

The dramatic incident happened at 8 o’clock this morning, writing RTL.

According to the French site set a man in the car. Other media such as Sky News and Spanish AS, argues for its part that two persons sitting in the car. The car will first have crashed into another car near the Champs-Elysees.

Police onsite tried according to RTL as to control the man, before he ran away. He must then riding on to Place de la Concorde, where he again clashed before police thus fired shots.

The police did not stop the man, who is now on the run.

BBC Not terrorism

Luc Poignant Parisian police states to Sky News that the organizers were trying to put up barriers around the track as the car tried to drive through.

No police officers shall have been injured, according Poignant.

The BBC’s Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reports that there are no signs that terrorism is the motive behind the incident. It writes TV channel on their websites.

Schofield also suggests that there may have been an intoxicated person who was on his way home from a city tour.

Popular tourist destination for Norwegians

Thousands of people gather on the square every year, to watch the Tour de France the race’s best sprinters make up the stage win. The stage is also a very popular tourist destination among Norwegians.

Before the Tour de France was greater skepticism about the security situation than in previous years.

The reason is the unrest in France this year. In January, for example, 11 people were killed after a terrorist attack on the offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

In July wrote site VeloNews that it was implemented extraordinary measures in the context of this year’s edition of the race. 20,000 people, including firefighters, policemen and military forces have been mobilized to ensure security during this year’s Tour de France.

– The intelligence service is mobilized to detect any possible signs of danger, said Pierre-Henry Bradet, spokesperson for the Interior Ministry in France, to VeloNews in June.

It is still unclear what lies behind the incident at the Place de la Concorde this morning.

This stage begins four

The riders start Sunday’s final leg quarter past four. It is expected that the finish is around seven o’clock.

The stage concludes with ten laps around the Champs-Elysees.

Neither the organizer or the French authorities have provided some indications of that incident this morning will affect the completion of the race.