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Train station seems like an important detail.
Obligatory: “Train stations are where trains stop, bus stations are where busses stop, I have a work station… and police stations are really frightening.”
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French counter-terrorism police have shot and wounded an unarmed woman in a full veil after she threatened train passengers, Paris authorities say.
Officers opened fire eight times when the woman refused to comply with police orders, a source told the BBC.
Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez said the woman may be a 38-year-old who in 2021 threatened security forces protecting sensitive sites in France from terror attacks.
Earlier this month, a teacher was killed and two people seriously injured at a school in northern France by an attacker who reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar”.
Mayor Karim Bouamrane called for the authors of the “antisemitic and racist” graffiti to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Emmanuel Grégoire, deputy to Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, said the stars would be removed and an investigation launched.
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Reuters reports the women shouted ‘You’re all going to die’ in a metro station and was threatening, quoting the prosecutor.
The investigation and video recording will be important to verify this.
If the reporting is accurate, police shot an unarmed women believing she was going to blow herself up. It might be an attempt at suicide by cop.
If it’s inaccurate it might be a tragic police blunder.
