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Article snippet: PARIS — Six soldiers were injured in a Paris suburb on Wednesday when a car drove into them, the French authorities said, and the police were looking for the driver of the vehicle. The car, identified as a BMW, plowed into the soldiers outside a building they were using in Levallois-Perret, a northwestern suburb of Paris that is adjacent to the city, according to the Paris police. The authorities have not identified the episode as terrorism, but France has been on a constant alert for more than two years. About 7,000 soldiers are currently on patrol around the country as part of the response to the terrorist threat and to a series of attacks that started in 2015. The most serious attacks were a shooting at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a siege at a kosher supermarket in January 2015, a series of coordinated attacks in the Paris area later that year that killed 130, and a deadly assault by a man who drove a truck through a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice last summer that left 86 dead. Two of the six soldiers in Levallois-Perret were wounded more seriously than the others, but none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, the Paris police said. On its Twitter account, the police prefecture said that operations were continuing in the area and that the authorities were looking for the vehicle and the driver. Patrick Balkany, the mayor of Levallois-Perret, told the news channel BFM-TV that the attack, which he called a “despicable a... Link to the full article to read more