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Terrorist threat: police shoot threatening woman in RER C
Terrorist threat: police shoot threatening woman in RER C – (France info)
The police opened fire on Tuesday, October 31 in Paris, on a woman who threatened to blow herself up in the RER C. Passengers had alerted the police about the behavior of this veiled woman who shouted “You’re all going to pass.”
An impressive deployment of helmeted and heavily armed police arrivedTuesday October 31, as reinforcement in the underground RER station Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, in the heart of Paris. It’s 9:30 a.m., Tuesday morning, When at least five shots ring out. In a radio message, a police officer warns: “Individual on the ground, individual on the ground.” 13 seconds later, a final detonation is heard. The police have just neutralized a woman, fully veiled, who was threatening passers-by.
A woman known to the police
The 38-year-old woman had been reported by users four stops earlier in Choisy-le-Roi (Val-de-Marne). She said she wanted to blow everything up. When she gets off at Library station, police officers take her away from the platforms and make her sit on the ground. She screams “God is great”. As the bomb squad arrives, she gets up and refuses to comply. Two police officers opened fire and fired eight times. Wounded in the abdomen, the young woman whose identity remains to be confirmed was obviously known to the services from police for a similar act in January 2021. The woman ultimately carried neither weapon nor explosive. His vital prognosis is still in jeopardy. Two investigations are open, including one for advocating terrorism.