Patrick Balkany, the local mayor for the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, had "no doubt" that Wednesday's incident in which a car drove into a group of soldiers, was a deliberate act, Reuters reports.
"Without any doubt, it was a deliberate act," Balkany told BFM TV.
"It's an odious act of aggression," Balkany also said, adding that the car in question was a BMW.
Earlier it became known that a car rammed into a group of soldiers in a Parisian suburb Levallois-Perret, which is about 5 km (3 miles) from city center landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Elysee Presidential Palace.