A shootout erupted Thursday morning in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine), south of Paris, killing one. The gunman fired on municipal police, a road and a police officer shortly after 8:00, with automatic weapons. It is still at large. Police has died from his injuries, his colleague was seriously injured. As part of the investigation, a man aged 52 was arrested shortly after the incident. According to the first elements, there is "no connection established with the attack on Charlie Hebdo," according to sources close to the case.
The man was carrying a bulletproof vest, a handgun and an automatic rifle. Around 8:19, he was shot in the back at police who intervened in a traffic accident. The shooting occurred near the Porte de Chatillon, south of Paris.
The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve left in the emergency crisis meeting with François Hollande, held the day after the attack against the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, to go there. He called for "control" and "cool" to facilitate "the outcome of ongoing investigations in the best conditions."
At the scene of this new shoot, a resident of the street Sassi Ahmed, 38, described "a scene of panic." From the window of his kitchen, the living says he saw "a policeman standing and another gentleman in dark clothes who was running" before "shoot him at point blank range and run." "I saw the policeman (fell) on the ground and his colleague who was calling for help," said Ahmed Sassi.
Furthermore, an explosion of criminal origin occurred Thursday morning to 6:00 in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône) before a kebab restaurant near the mosque, causing no casualties. "It is criminal," said a prefectural source told AFP. The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police. Prosecutors in Villefranche-sur-Saône was to hold a press briefing on site on the initial findings of the survey of forensic science.
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