French soldiers open fire on car as it tried to ram mosque twice

Soldiers opened fire on a car which tried to ram them twice as they stood guard at a mosque in the south eastern French town of Valence. The bullets seriously wounded the car's driver in the leg and arm, while a stray shot struck an innocent worshiper, injuring the 72-year-old man in the calf. A soldier was also slightly injured in the incident, when the car struck his legs. The attacker had twice rammed his car - which was registered in Savoie, a department to the east - into the four soldiers guarding the mosque. 
The mosque's spokesman Abdallah Imam Dliouah said the driver, who was 'unknown to the mosque', tried to deliberately slam into the four soldiers who were 'responsible for protecting' it.

'Even if this happened near a mosque, the target was the soldiers,' the mayor added.
Daragon said the attacker's identity, motives and psychiatric state were not yet known. The soldiers are among thousands protecting sensitive sites around France after the deadly terror attacks which left 130 dead in Paris last month (You can read the story here).