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. '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.