Teen turns himself in after car smashes Tour de France barrier
A 16-year-old has handed himself into police and confessed to smashing through security barriers of the Tour de France route in Paris, prompting police to open fire as the car sped away from a checkpoint Sunday. Meanwhile, a young woman also believed to have been in the car checked herself into a hospital in the western Paris suburbs with bullet wounds to the chest.
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She was operated on overnight and "her life is not in danger," a source close to the investigation told AFP.
"The probe will determine if the bullet that hit the young woman came from a police shot," the source said.
After the incident at Place de la Concorde, which happened hours before the riders were due to come through, police found the bullet-pocked car abandoned nearby in the city’s eighth arrondissement.
"Investigations are underway to see if he was at the wheel," a legal source told news agency AFP after the teen turned himself in.
Another person has also come forward claiming to have been in the car. Both are in police custody.
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