Shots in Paris: Another dead confirmed – "There is panic"
Created: 2022-12-23Updated: 2022-12-23, 2:27 p.m
Bloody deed in Paris: Police and emergency services secure the crime scene.
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There was a bloody incident in Paris.
There are dead and injured.
The police report an arrest.
Update from December 23, 2:20 p.m .:
Another person died in the shots in Paris.
The Paris public prosecutor confirmed a third fatality.
The suspect is a 69-year-old Frenchman who was known to the police because of two previous murder attempts, police sources said.
He is not on the secret service's list of endangered persons.
According to District Mayor Alexandra Cordebard, the man was taken to a hospital with injuries.
The public prosecutor's office is investigating because of murder and serious violence.
The judicial police is initially responsible, not the terror prosecutor's office.
"I saw two police officers go into a hairdressing salon where two people were lying on the ground, their legs were injured," said a local resident.
"There were seven or eight shots, there is panic," said an eyewitness to the
AFP
news agency .
"We saw an old white man who went to the Kurdish center and fired there," said Romain, a chef at a nearby restaurant.
The man then went to a neighboring hairdressing salon.
"We got ourselves to safety with the staff in the restaurant," he added.
The Berlin-based Kurdish Center for Public Relations, which claims to be in contact with the Parisian Kurdish center near which the bloody crime occurred, said that Paris was assuming a "targeted attack on the Kurdish community".
Update from December 23, 1:10 p.m .:
The age of the arrested suspect is now given as 69 years.
Emmanuel Grégoire, who works for the Paris mayor, thanked the security forces for their quick action.
His thoughts are with the victims and witnesses of the attack.
The district mayor wanted to go to the scene of the incident.
First report from December 23:
Paris - Several people were injured by gunshots in central Paris.
A man in his 60s was arrested, police sources said on Friday.
"There were seven or eight shots, there is panic," said an eyewitness to the
AFP
news agency .
The police called for people to avoid the area around Rue d'Enghien in the 10th arrondissement.
However, there is no longer any danger.
Shots in Paris: Prosecutors report two fatalities
As the
AFP
news agency further reports, citing the public prosecutor's office, there are at least two fatalities and four people injured.
Two of them are said to be in mortal danger.
It is a small street with many restaurants, not far from the Grande Boulevards with their famous department stores.
The fire brigade and rescue workers were on duty.
