The suspect has been named as Hamou Bachir Benlatreche, a 36-year-old Algerian national, legally resident in France and unknown to the security services. Benlatreche was driving the rented black BMW car used in the attack in Levallois-Perret, on the outskirts of Paris. A police source told Le Figaro the suspect had a stable and legitimate job and appeared to be “perfectly unknown”. You could have knocked me over,” Benlatreche told BFMTV. “He was going so fast, I had to move over an let him go,” Laurent told French journalists.

Source: The Guardian August 10, 2017 11:37 UTC