By Marlyn Montilla
31 Oct 2023, 16:44 PM EDT
A woman who was advocating terrorism at a train station near Paris, France, was seriously injured this Tuesday after being shot by the police, being considered a threat due to her exalted and threatening attitude, who was reported in serious condition. after undergoing emergency surgery.
According to the BFMTV channel, the woman, who was wearing a full veil and her nationality and age were not revealed, was not carrying any type of explosive.
Likewise, the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand station, south of the French capital, had to be evacuated.
French officials reported that the woman had shouted the usual words used by jihadists, “Allahu Akbar” (“God is the greatest”) and had claimed that she was “going to blow everything up.”
According to sources, the authorities, who received reports from different passengers, approached the woman at 9:00 in the morning, who ignored the orders they gave her. When she refused, the officers shot her in the belly when they felt threatened.
Justice opened two investigations, one entrusted to the Paris Judiciary Police for death threats and acts of intimidation against law enforcement forces and another to the General Inspection of the National Police (IGPN), to find out whether the use of firearms fire by the agents proceeded.
Since last October 7, when the Hamas attacks on Israel occurred, France has raised its terrorist alert to the maximum.
On October 13, a French language teacher from a high school in Arras was stabbed to death by a 20-year-old Chechen jihadist, in an act that the French government linked to the war in the Middle East.
With information from EFE
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