PARIS – Paris police shot and critically wounded a veiled woman who was behaving threateningly and shouting “Allahu Akbar” and “You will all die” at a metro station on Tuesday morning, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said. .
France is on high alert after the killing of a schoolteacher on October 13 in an attack by suspected Islamist groups, which officials have linked to what they call a “Jihad atmosphere” linked to the Israel-Gaza war.
The fully veiled woman was shot at the Bibliotheque François-Mitterand station.
Passengers had reported him “uttering aggressive Jihadist comments,” government spokesman Olivier Veran said earlier.
When the police arrived, “they pulled the woman aside and first asked her to calm down but also to show her hands to show that they did not pose any particular danger,” he added.
“What happened at that point was that the law enforcement officers had no choice but to open fire on this woman given the danger.”
The woman shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “You are all going to die” at the metro station. ZUMAPRESS.com/Maxppp
The fire service, which provided emergency treatment for the woman, said she had been shot in the stomach.
He was transferred to a nearby hospital where he received treatment, police chief Nunez said, adding that his life was in danger.
Nunez said the woman’s identity has yet to be confirmed but she may be the same person who in 2021 threatened city patrols for the anti-terror operation Sentinelle and was admitted to a psychiatric ward for mental health issues.
A French police officer walks from a metro station after a woman who made threats was shot and injured by police.AFP via Getty Images/GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/ Commuters have reported she “made aggressive and Jihadist comments.” AP/Michel Euler
“These people refused to comply with the summons and the police fired their weapons,” Nunez said, adding the situation was “very threatening.” The woman had threatened to blow herself up, French media including Le Parisien quoted the prosecutor’s office as saying.
The woman was apparently not in possession of explosives when she was shot, Nunez said.
The metro station, on the RER C line, was evacuated after the incident, police said.
Two investigations were opened, one against the woman and the other about the use of weapons by the police.
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