Mayor Decries 'Odious' Attack on Paris Soldiers

French police say a vehicle slammed into soldiers guarding a Paris suburb Wednesday, injuring six of them before getting away. Authorities are searching for the driver and vehicle, which drove away after the incident at Place de Verdun in Levallois-Perret, on the northwest edge of Paris, according to a Paris police spokesman. The BMW's driver appeared to clearly target the soldiers, but the motive is unclear, the spokesman tells the AP. Levallois-Perret Mayor Patrick Balkany denounced on BFM television what he called an "odious attack" and said it was "without a doubt deliberate." The attack targeted soldiers from the Sentinelle security force created after Islamic extremist attacks in 2015. (More Paris stories.)