caen · FR
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A car was driven deliberately into a group of people on the public highway opposite the railway station in Caen, Calvados, at about ten o'clock on the evening of Wednesday 26 August 2026. The victims were standing near a tram stop and a bus shelter in the station quarter. One person was killed and ten were injured. The prefect of Calvados, who went to the scene, said seven of the injured were in a critical condition and three more seriously but not critically hurt. Police said most of the casualties were foreign nationals, among them Afghan, Egyptian and Bangladeshi citizens. The area was sealed off by the authorities. The driver left the scene and was arrested about twenty kilometres away at Ouistreham. He is a 26-year-old man born in Russia, and according to the prefect he was not known to the intelligence services and was known to the police only for road-traffic offences. An investigation was opened for assassination and for intentional violence with a weapon, and was assigned to the organised and specialised crime division of Calvados. The deputy public prosecutor, speaking at the scene, said that for the moment the case did not appear to involve a terrorist motive but that the investigation was only beginning. The mayor of the city and witnesses said the car had driven off at speed after a brawl, and witnesses described a fight between two groups and an angry man who returned to the scene; none of this had been established at the time of the cited reports.
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- incident_date corrected from the intake value 2026-08-27 to 2026-08-26: both sources place the attack on the evening of Wednesday 26 August 2026, Le Figaro at 'vers 22 heures' and franceinfo at 'vers 22h15', and the Le Figaro item was itself published at 23h57 on 26 August. slug and filename updated to match.