Paris police shoot and seriously wound a woman woman in hijab who behaved threateningly and shouted “Allah Akbar” and “they will all die” in a metro station on Tuesday morning, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said.

France is in its maximum alert state after the murder of a school teacher in the village on October 13 suspected Islamist attackwhich authorities linked to the so-called “jihadist milieu” associated with the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

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A woman, fully covered, was shot in station “National Library of France”.

Government spokesman Olivier Veran said the woman “made aggressive and jihadist comments.”

According to the press service representative, when the police arrived, “they pulled the woman aside and asked her first to calm down, but also to show her hands prove that they did not pose a particular danger“.

“What happened was that law enforcement They had no choice but to open fire. against this woman, given the danger of the situation.”

The fire department, which immediately provided assistance to the woman, reported that she had been hit by a car. bullet in the stomach. She was taken to a nearby hospital.

Police Chief Nunez said that even The woman’s identity has not been confirmed. but that this could be the same person who threatened city patrols of the Sentinel anti-terrorism operation in 2021 and who admitted to a psychiatric hospital on mental health issues.

Metro station, line C RER, was evacuated after the incident, police said.

According to a government spokesman, two investigations have been opened, one against the woman and the other into police use of weapons.

Reuters