France police shoot woman in Paris train station after bomb threat
- The prosecutor’s office said the woman made death threats while travelling on a suburban train heading towards the city centre
- She was critically injured and no explosive device was found on her, according to media reports
Paris police opened fire Tuesday on a woman who threatened to blow herself up after allegedly making death threats and speaking in support of terrorism on a suburban train heading into the French capital.
It was the latest security incident in France, which has been on heightened anti-terror alert since a fatal stabbing at a school on October 13 blamed on an Islamic extremist.
Officers stopped the woman at a Metro and suburban train station in eastern Paris that serves the François Mitterrand national library.
Police fired one shot, hitting and seriously injuring her, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. It said she was hospitalised for emergency treatment.
No explosive device was found on her, according to the newspaper Le Parisien, citing the police.
The woman had shouted “God is great” in Arabic, the report said.
