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Following the incident, the police headquarters building was visited by President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. [11] The Île de la Cité was placed under a lockdown and the Cité station of the Paris Métro, located on the island, was closed to passengers. [8]
On 20 April 2017, three French National Police officers were shot by Karim Cheurfi, a French national wielding an AK-47 rifle on the Champs-Élysées boulevard in Paris.One officer, French National Police Captain Xavier Jugelé, was killed and two other French National Police officers and a German tourist were seriously wounded.
At the site of the attack, Paris police officers found "a piece of paper on the man's body with the Muslim profession of faith, a drawing of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) flag and a pledge of allegiance to the extremist group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi". The suspect was also carrying a cellphone with a German SIM card. [11]
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A French police official says 12 people are dead in a shooting at a satirical weekly newspaper in central Paris. ... Graphic Video of Paris Attack Shows Gunmen Shooting Wounded Officer Dead.
[4] [5] His birth first name was Iman, but it was changed in 2003. [5] He was released from prison in 2020 after serving four years for planning an attack. Prosecutor Jean-François Ricard said the suspect had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State .
Police arrested an assailant who killed one person and injured two others in central Paris, France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told reporters at the scene on Saturday night.
A police statement said that the raid was related to the Paris attacks. [294] [295] Four police officers were wounded in the raid, and a manhunt for escaped suspects followed. [296] [297] On 18 March 2016, there were further raids in the Molenbeek area of Brussels. [298] Two suspects were reportedly injured in one such raid and a third suspect ...