PARIS – Fleeing the police after a car crash in Paris, a man who had beendriving without a licence took the ultimate wrong turn — and ended uptaking refuge inside the headquarters of France’s spy agency.
According to a police source, the hapless driver fled after being involvedin a crash on Paris’s peripherique ring road on Friday, scaling a fenceseveral metres (feet) high to get off the busy artery.
What he didn’t realise was that he had unwittingly climbed into the groundsof the General Directorate of External Security (DGSE), according to theParisien newspaper which first reported the story.
He was immediately picked up and arrested.
Located on Boulevard Mortier in northeastern Paris, the ultra-secure sitewas featured in acclaimed French TV spy thriller “Le Bureau des Legendes”,which won international acclaim under the English title “The Bureau.” -APP/AFP