France’s Lyon airport halted flights on Monday when a driver being chased by police smashed his car through a terminal building and onto a runway.
More than a dozen police cars and a helicopter pursued the fugitive over a distance up the wrong side of a motorway before he broke through security barriers at the Lyon-Saint-Exupery international airport.
“Pursued by police, he smashed through Terminal 1 before reaching the runway area,” the government prefect’s office said in a statement.
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