police open fire to subdue threatening woman advocating terrorism

The police opened fire this Tuesday morning in the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand RER station, located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, in order to subdue a threatening woman advocating terrorism, franceinfo learned from reliable sources.

According to the police, it was a station user who called the police to report the behavior of a woman completely veiled and making comments advocating terrorism. “The Paris public prosecutor’s office has been informed of the arrest in the RER C of a woman reported for having uttered death threats from the Val-de-Marne stations”specifies the Paris prosecutor’s office, contacted by franceinfo.

“The woman having refused to comply with the police’s orders and threatening to blow herself up, a police officer used his firearm once. The woman’s life is in jeopardy”, adds the prosecution. According to several corroborating sources at franceinfo, the woman was injured in the stomach and was hospitalized.

Two open investigations

The prosecution specifies that two investigations have been opened, the first entrusted to the Paris judicial police for apology, death threats and act of intimidation against a holder of public authority, the other is entrusted to the IGPN for violence volunteers with weapons by person holding public authority, on the use of firearms.

This Tuesday morning at 10 a.m., the police intervention was still in progress, with emergency services and deminers on site. According to several corroborating sources joined by franceinfo, no explosive was found on this woman.