“Allah Akbar”, panic at the Saint-Lazare station

Alarm last night, just before midnight, at the Saint-Lazare station in Paris. A man threatened with a knife, shouting "Allah Akbar", two French railway security officers who responded by firing gunshots. The man was seriously injured and is now on a confidential prognosis.

An investigation into what happened was opened for "attempted murder on a representative of the public authority, apology for terrorism and armed violence", the Paris prosecutor specified. The policemen would have fired with the service weapon "to defend themselves and neutralize him".

(Unioneonline / ss)