Champs Élysées: driver dead as car carrying firearms rams police van

Handguns, assault rifle and gas canister found in car used in ‘attempted attack’ on avenue in Paris, French officials sayFrance’s anti-terror prosecutor has opened an investigation after a car carrying firearms and a gas canister rammed into a police van on the Champs Élysées in central Paris.The French interior minister, Gérard Collomb, said the driver of the car was killed in what he described as “an attempted attack” on a convoy of police veh