Man tries to drive car into crowd at French mosque

Man said he wanted to avenge attacks linked to Islamic State, according to local media.

A police van outside the mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil where a man tried to drive a car into a crowd | Benjamin Cremel/AFP via Getty Images

A man was arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in Creteil, a suburb of Paris, French police said Thursday evening.

There were no reported injuries and police said the man had been prevented from hitting people by barriers in front of the mosque, Reuters reported.

According to Le Parisien newspaper, the man said he wanted to avenge attacks linked to Islamic State.

On Tuesday, a British man was charged with terrorism-related murder after allegedly driving a van into a crowd of Muslims leaving a mosque in north London on the night of 19 June.

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