Fugitive from car crash runs into spy agency

Fleeing police after a car crash in Paris, a man who had been driving without a licence took the ultimate wrong turn and ended up inside the headquarters of France’s spy agency.

According to police, the hapless driver fled after being involved in a crash on Paris’s peripherique on Friday. But he unwittingly found himself in the grounds of the General Directorate of External Security and was immediately arrested.

The site is one of the most closely monitored spots in Paris, with images of it on Google’s Street View blurred.