Louvre Shooting: Soldier Fires on Attacker Outside Paris Museum
Source: NBC News
A soldier opened fire on an alleged attacker outside the world-famous Louvre museum in Paris, police said Friday.
France's interior ministry said on Twitter that the incident was "serious." The area was being evacuated.
Luc Poignant, a police union official, told BFM-TV that the soldier had been assaulted and that the area was being secured.
Paris' police chief told The Associated Press that the soldier fired five shots, and that the suspect had been seriously wounded.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/paris-shooting-soldier-fires-attacker-outside-louvre-museum-n716306
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)near the museum. I wonder if there was more than one suspect.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Hopefully there is not another wave of attacks coming in France/Europe.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)they got the suspects before anyone got hurt. That's a blessing.
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True Dough
(17,331 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 3, 2017, 01:20 PM - Edit history (1)
And Spicer will point to this as another reason for the Muslim ban, no matter the actual facts behind it.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)or his . . .
Oh. Never mind.
True Dough
(17,331 posts)He's consistent in his attempts to blow things out of proportion and justify his discrimination. Thorough vetting already exists. These sorts of extremist actions are so rare in North America but Donny want us to believe they're lurking around every corner.
sinkingfeeling
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(11,841 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)"Michel Cadot, the head of the French capital's police force, said the man shouted "Allahu akbar" Arabic for "God is great" during the incident."
Baclava
(12,047 posts)A French soldier shot and wounded a man armed with machetes and carrying two bags on his back on Friday as he tried to enter the Paris Louvre museum in what the government said appeared to have been a terrorist attack.
Initial indications were that the man, who was hovering between life and death after being shot, was an Egyptian who arrived in France at the end of January, a source close to the investigation said.
The man shouted Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) and rushed at police and soldiers before being shot and seriously wounded near the museum's shopping mall, police said. A second person was also detained after acting suspiciously.
"The soldier fired five bullets," Michel Cadot, head of Paris police, said, describing how the man hurried threateningly towards the soldiers at around 10 a.m. (0900 GMT).
"It was an attack by a person ... who represented a direct threat and whose actions suggested a terrorist context."
At a meeting of EU leaders in Malta, French President Francois Hollande praised the courage and determination of the soldiers. "This operation undoubtedly prevented an attack whose terrorist nature leaves little doubt," he said.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-shooting-idUKKBN15I10T