PARIS (Reuters) -The driver who rammed his car into a crowd in western France is suspected of “self-radicalisation” and had “explicit religious references” at home, the country’s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Thursday.

“Based on a number of factors that exist with this individual, and the fact that he actually shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’, there are religious references in his case that are quite clear and quite explicit”, Nunez said. “Allahu Akbar” is Arabic for “God is Greatest”.

However, Nunez added that it wasn’t clear at this stage if Wednesday’s attack, which injured five people on Oleron island off France’s Atlantic coast, was religiously motivated.

“It is the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office that will determine through a psychiatric evaluation – which took place y

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