
According to Skynews a Paris policewoman has been hurt after a motorist drove at her outside the President's residence.
According to newspaper
reports the car had been driving the wrong way along a one-way system and left
the 37-year with wrist, knee and back injuries.
Le Parisien newspaper said
four suspects ran away from the car.
Two have been arrested on
Rue d'Anjou and two are still on the run. French media are reporting that the
driver was breathalysed and found to be over the legal alcohol limit.
Police sources said the
incident appeared to be unconnected to last week's attacks in the city, which
left 20 people dead.
It came ahead of more
funerals for employees of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, who were killed by
brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi.
Private family funerals for
cartoonists Georges Wolinski, 80, and Bernard "Tignous" Verlhac, 57,
were due to take place after they were shot dead by the pair.
The funeral for Franck
Brinsolaro, one of the policemen killed, will take place in Sainte-Croix de
Bernay, while Elsa Cayat, the only woman killed in the attacks, will be buried
in Montparnasse.
Millions in France have
been rallying in support of free speech after the attacks, although French
prosecutors have launched more than 50 cases against people deemed to be
condoning or threatening terrorist acts.
They include one against
controversial comedian Dieudonne, who was arrested Wednesday over a remark
suggesting he sympathised with one of the Paris attackers.
A 21-year-old in Toulouse
was also sent to prison for 10 months on Monday under France's ultra-fast-track
court system, for expressing support for the jihadists.
French President Francois
Hollande declared Charlie Hebdo was "alive and will live on" after
its new edition sold out in record time.
The Afghan Taliban condemned the publication in France of
further cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and lauded last week's attack on the
Charlie Hebdo offices.
A English statement from
the group said they "strongly condemn this repugnant and inhumane action
and consider its perpetrators, those who allowed it and its supporters (to be)
the enemies of humanity".
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