- October 31, 2023
Woman making terror threats, shouting Allahu Akbar shot by Paris cops – Times of India
NEW DELHI: French police on Tuesday shot and seriously wounded an unarmed woman who was wearing an Islamic veil while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ and also threatened to blow herself up.
The police shot her at the height of the rush hour at the Bibliothèque François-Miterrand Metro station in Paris, Daily Mail reported.
This strange incident took place after the passengers on a suburban train alerted the police, officers managed to ‘isolate’ the woman at the station on the capital’s south bank, leading to a stand-off.
The woman was shot around 50 minutes after armed police arrived at the station. Police said officers opened fire after she didn’t respond to their warnings.
The investigating source said that the woman made threats and advocated terrorism,’ said an investigating source.
While threatening, she screamed, ‘Allahu akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is the Greatest’.
‘Fearing for their safety, the police opened fire around 9:20 a.m. She was then injured in the stomach and evacuated immediately,’ said the source.
Some of the eyewitnesses said that the woman was “completely veiled.”
After the incident, a sense of fear was triggered among the people in Paris and accelerated the Vigipirate anti-terrorist plan. The station was shut down, soldiers surrounded the area, and civilians evacuated.
The woman was initially spotted at the Villeneuve-le-Roi RER station, where she was ‘making worrying comments.’
Police waited for her in Paris, and ‘having refused to comply with the officers’ orders and threatening to blow herself up, a police officer made a single use of his firearm,’ said the prosecuting source.
He confirmed the suspect’s condition in the hospital was ‘critical’.
France has been ‘under attack.’ According to Reuters, Since October 18, there has been a total of 70 bomb hoaxes in airports in France, he said, adding that almost all of these alerts were sent from the same Swiss-based email address.
Not only the hoax calls but there were some cases of French people being killed.
Earlier, a teacher in the northern city of Arras was stabbed to death by an Islamist former pupil. The alleged attacker had been under police surveillance on suspicion of Islamic radicalization.
Dominique Bernard, 57, was repeatedly stabbed in the neck by a self-styled ISIS terrorist who also shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’. Bernard’s alleged killed is 20-year-old Chechen refugee Mohamed Mogouchkov, who is in custody.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said there was also tension over the ongoing Hamas-Israel War in the Middle East, as per Daily Mail.
France has banned several pro-Palestinian rallies and fired tear gas and water cannons at those showing their support for those being killed in Gaza.
The police shot her at the height of the rush hour at the Bibliothèque François-Miterrand Metro station in Paris, Daily Mail reported.
This strange incident took place after the passengers on a suburban train alerted the police, officers managed to ‘isolate’ the woman at the station on the capital’s south bank, leading to a stand-off.
The woman was shot around 50 minutes after armed police arrived at the station. Police said officers opened fire after she didn’t respond to their warnings.
The investigating source said that the woman made threats and advocated terrorism,’ said an investigating source.
While threatening, she screamed, ‘Allahu akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is the Greatest’.
‘Fearing for their safety, the police opened fire around 9:20 a.m. She was then injured in the stomach and evacuated immediately,’ said the source.
Some of the eyewitnesses said that the woman was “completely veiled.”
After the incident, a sense of fear was triggered among the people in Paris and accelerated the Vigipirate anti-terrorist plan. The station was shut down, soldiers surrounded the area, and civilians evacuated.
The woman was initially spotted at the Villeneuve-le-Roi RER station, where she was ‘making worrying comments.’
Police waited for her in Paris, and ‘having refused to comply with the officers’ orders and threatening to blow herself up, a police officer made a single use of his firearm,’ said the prosecuting source.
He confirmed the suspect’s condition in the hospital was ‘critical’.
France has been ‘under attack.’ According to Reuters, Since October 18, there has been a total of 70 bomb hoaxes in airports in France, he said, adding that almost all of these alerts were sent from the same Swiss-based email address.
Not only the hoax calls but there were some cases of French people being killed.
Earlier, a teacher in the northern city of Arras was stabbed to death by an Islamist former pupil. The alleged attacker had been under police surveillance on suspicion of Islamic radicalization.
Dominique Bernard, 57, was repeatedly stabbed in the neck by a self-styled ISIS terrorist who also shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’. Bernard’s alleged killed is 20-year-old Chechen refugee Mohamed Mogouchkov, who is in custody.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said there was also tension over the ongoing Hamas-Israel War in the Middle East, as per Daily Mail.
France has banned several pro-Palestinian rallies and fired tear gas and water cannons at those showing their support for those being killed in Gaza.
