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A pro-Russian Twitter account shared a video of a man with a rifle on a roof, falsely claiming that the man was a sniper on Paris's rooftops. [ 120 ] Paul Golding , leader of the British far-right party Britain First , shared a mislabeled post of a June 2020 video of armed men from a different period of unrest. [ 120 ]
On 27 June 2023, Nahel Merzouk (25 February 2006 – 27 June 2023), [1] a 17-year-old French youth of Moroccan and Algerian descent, [2] was shot at point-blank range and killed by police officer Florian M., when he didn't comply with a request to turn off ignition and attempted to drive away in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, France.
On 7 January 2016 in Paris, a man wearing a fake explosive belt attacked police officers with a meat cleaver while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" He was shot and killed by officers when he failed to obey an order to stop. [1] [2] The attempted attack took place on the first anniversary of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting. [3]
French police have arrested a man suspected of killing one person and injuring two others in a knife and hammer attack in central Paris. The attack took place at Bir Hakeim, near the Eiffel Tower ...
6 stabbed in Paris train station, attacker shot by police January 11, 2023 at 3:42 AM A police car parks outside the Gare du Nord train station, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 in Paris.
Thursday's knife attack comes just days after a man stabbed and wounded a French soldier patrolling Paris on Monday outside the Gare de l’Est train station in eastern Paris. The man was taken to ...
The next day, Hamraoui attended the police station as part of a witness process, and told Diallo that she "had heard from other teammates that Diallo was behind the attack." [13] French police were also questioning a male suspect, imprisoned in Lyon and known as "Ja Ja", at the time, due to his connections with female footballers. They also ...
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]