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Man shot dead at Paris airport after trying to grab gun, reports say Man shot dead at Paris airport after trying to grab gun
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French soldiers shot dead a man at Paris’ Orly airport on Saturday after he tried to grab a weapon, according to local reports. French soldiers shot dead a man at Orly airport in Paris on Saturday morning after he tried to grab a weapon, the interior ministry has confirmed.
The airport was evacuated following the incident, news channel BFM TV said. Police evacuated both terminals at the airport and all flights have been suspended, with some diverted to Charles de Gaulle airport.
French police confirmed that a security operation was in progress at the airport, south of the capital. Travellers have been told to avoid the airport while the security operation was under way. Some passengers whose flights had already landed were being held on board.
More details soon. No one else was injured in the incident.
An interior ministry spokesman said officers were sweeping the airport to ensure that there were no explosive devices.
“A man took a weapon from a soldier then hid in a shop in the airport before being shot dead by security forces,” he said.
The soldier was part of the Sentinel special force installed around France to protect sensitive sites after a string of deadly Islamic extremist attacks.
The French interior minister, Bruno Le Roux, is due to visit the airport, south of Paris, later.
A witness, Franck Lecam, said: “We had queued up to check in for the Tel Aviv flight when we heard three or four shots nearby. We are all outside the airport, about 200 metres from the entrance.
“There are policemen, emergency workers and soldiers everywhere in all directions. A security official told us that it happened near gates 37-38 where Turkish Airlines flights were scheduled.”
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a police officer was shot and injured north of Paris during a road check.
The airport shooting follows after a similar incident last month at the Louvre museum in central Paris.
France remains under a state of emergency in the wake of the attack on the Bataclan music venue in November 2015 in which 90 people were killed by jihadi gunmen, and the Nice truck attack last July that claimed the lives of 84 people and injured hundreds more.
No further details about the man killed at the airport were immediately available.