A French gendarme walks past a burned car on the Champs Elysees avenue after an incident in Paris, France, June 19, 2017 . REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - A driver appeared to deliberately crash his car into a police van on the French capital's Champs Elysees avenue on Monday, the interior ministry said, and the Paris prosecutor's anti-terrorism unit said it had opened an investigation.
"It looks like this was a deliberate act," Interior Ministry Spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters at the scene.
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