FRENCH police ruled out terrorism after a white van rammed into two Marseille bus stops, killing a woman at one of them.
A police official said that a terrorist motive for the attacks in two different neighbourhoods yesterday morning, in which a man was also injured, had been “completely rejected” and that the driver was being treated for psychological problems.
The suspect, who has not been identified by name, was arrested in the Old Port area.
He is 35 years old and from the Grenoble region in eastern France, a press official for police headquarters in Marseille said.
The official said forensic specialists went over the van while the man was being questioned. Police and a forensic team in white suits took evidence from the bus stop. The glass walls of the bus stop where the woman was killed were shattered.
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