PARIS (AP) – Paris police opened fire on a woman suspected of making death threats and speaking in support of terrorism on a train into the French capital, the latest security incident in the country that has been on heightened anti-terror alert since a fatal stabbing at a school on October 13.
Police fired one shot, hitting and seriously injuring the woman, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. It said she was hospitalised for emergency treatment.
A police investigation was opened into the exact nature of what the woman allegedly said while riding the RER C suburban train into Paris, and witness testimony will be gathered, the prosecutor’s office said.
It said she is facing potential charges of making death threats, of apologising for terrorism and of intimidating behaviour directed at police. Another police probe was opened into the shooting, which is automatic when officers use firearms.
Paris police said officers responded after several train passengers phoned the emergency services and reported that a woman was making threats.
Officers lay in wait for the woman at a Metro and suburban train station in eastern Paris that serves the François Mitterrand national library, the prosecutor’s office said.
The shot was fired after she refused to obey police orders, it said. The train station was
evacuated.
In the October 13 school attack, French-language teacher Dominique Bernard was stabbed to death.
