Police stand outside the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterand metro and regional train station, where officers shot and injured a woman wearing a hijab.
Credit: Reuters Photo
Paris: Police shot and critically wounded a hijab-wearing woman in a Paris metro station on Tuesday morning, local media said, after commuters reported her behaving in a threatening manner.
She had threatened fellow passengers on an RER train by yelling out "You are all going to die" and had also yelled out "Allahu Akbar", said Paris police chief Laurent Nunez.
Nunez added that police had shot the woman after she refused to comply with police orders, and that she was not in possession of explosives at the time she was shot.
"Out of fear for their own safety, police agents used their weapons," a police spokesperson told Reuters.
The fire service, which provided emergency care for the woman, said she was struck by a bullet to her abdomen. She was transferred to a nearby hospital, a fire brigade spokesperson said.
Broadcaster BFM TV and daily newspaper Le Parisien earlier cited police sources as saying the woman's behaviour indicated a possible Islamist "terrorist" motivation.
The metro station had been evacuated, police said.
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