Shortly before 8 p.m. on Friday evening, a car struck a terrace of the Soya restaurant, located rue de la Pierre-Levée, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, without causing any victims, according to
our colleagues from Franceinfo and
of France Bleu Paris.
According to the testimonies collected by our colleagues, the accident did not cause any victims, but the driver abandoned his vehicle afterwards.
Hit and run?
On Twitter, the police headquarters confirmed that a vehicle had been found without a driver on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, and that a security device had been put in place.
#Information | Vehicle found driverless boulevard Richard Lenoir in # Paris11.
Central Laboratory intervention in progress.
Security perimeter in place. pic.twitter.com/N9fV8U9OVK– Police Prefecture (@prefpolice) July 16, 2021
According to our colleagues, a demining operation using a robot was carried out to inspect the vehicle. The man, on the run, is still wanted by the authorities. “According to a source close to the investigation, the first elements suggest that it is a simple hit-and-run”, indicates Franceinfo.