Motorist 'deliberately' hit 5 people in car ramming on French Atlantic island

SAINT-PIERRE-D'OLERON, France (AP) — A motorist “deliberately” hit five people over 35 minutes on Île d’Oléron, a quiet French island popular with summer tourists off the Atlantic coast, two of them seriously, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said Wednesday. Thibault Brechkoff, the mayor of Dolus-d’Oléron, who originally said nine people were injured, said that a crisis cell was set up and the suspect was arrested, he said. Christophe Sueur, the mayor of nearby Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron, said the front of the car used by the suspect was “completely torn off.”