On 14 August 2017, a car deliberately rammed into a busy pizzeria restaurant in Sept-Sorts, a village about 55 kilometres (34 mi) east from Paris, France.

[1][2][3][4] The driver was in a BMW vehicle and smashed into the terrace of Cesena Pizzeria, where there were 20 people dining.

[5] The suspect was later identified as 32-year-old David Patterson, a psychologically unstable and suicidal man thought to have links to the United Kingdom but a French national.

Patterson lived with his parents in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre and was thought to have been a cannabis smoker since the age of nine.

French President Emmanuel Macron sent his condolences to the victims via Twitter.