French police motorcycles crash during Bastille Day parade

AP Published: 2018-07-15 09:56:39
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Two French police motorcycles have crashed during a demonstration in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other guests at a grandiose Paris parade celebrating Bastille Day.

Two police motorcycles crash during a demonstration as part of the Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Saturday, July 14, 2018. [Photo: IC]

Two police motorcycles crash during a demonstration as part of the Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Saturday, July 14, 2018. [Photo: IC]

The motorcyclists were part of a group tracing patterns on the Place de la Concorde in central Paris as part of a carefully choreographed performance Saturday. After briefly falling down on the cobblestoned plaza, the motorcyclists righted the vehicles, to applause from Macron and the crowd.

Police and gendarme services didn't immediately have any details on who was involved. It appeared one of the motorcyclists miscalculated the entry onto the plaza.

Later in the ceremony there was an apparent glitch in the colored smoke sprayed by warplanes.

Alpha jets fly over the Arc de Triomphe leaving a red, white and blue trails during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, 14 July 2018. [Photo: IC]

Alpha jets fly over the Arc de Triomphe leaving a red, white and blue trails during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, 14 July 2018. [Photo: IC]

The pomp-filled Bastille Day event included thousands of soldiers and others parading down the Champs-Elysees.

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