Police opened fire in Paris on Tuesday, seriously injuring a woman who had spoken threateningly and shouted “Allah Akbar” on a commuter train, amid tensions in France after an attack in the northern city of Arras and the war between in Israel and Hamas.

This woman, aged 38, was already arrested in July 2021 by the soldiers of Operation Sentinelle (Guard). “Dressed in a garment that fully covered the head and body” and holding a ‘screwdriver’, uttered ‘words of a religious nature’ having a “threatening attitude,” Paris police chief Laurent Núñez later explained.

The woman was taken into custody and it was found that suffers from “psychiatric disorders”he added.

The 38-year-old he didn’t have a file for radicalizationcontrary to what police sources had initially said.

The police had been alerted by phone calls from passengers, who spoke of a woman clothed in a “veil that covers her completely” and who was “making threats” inside the train, according to the police chief.

“‘You will all pass by!’, ‘Allah Akbar!’, ‘Boom'”he said, according to eyewitnesses cited by Laurent Nunez.

The police he then spotted the woman at the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand station at southeast of Paris, which was evacuated.

The policemen she was “asked to sit on the ground”, the police chief explained. But the woman got up and “headed towards the police”.

They then called her to stop, asking her not to move and to show them her hands for to confirm that he was not carrying a weaponbut the woman refused to obey, Nunez continued.

She was shot 8 times

Two policemen then fired eight times, clarified the prosecution, which had initially spoken of a single shot by a police officer.

The woman wounded by two bullets in the abdomen, “underwent surgery and is still in recovery”, the prosecution clarified yesterday, Tuesday, evening.

After checks it was found that she had neither explosives nor a weapon on her, the police source said.

“The search at her residence has not revealed at this stage any evidence to raise fears of radicalization on her part”the prosecution pointed out last night, underlining that “she was also known for schizophrenia-type disorders, for which she is being treated”.

Two investigations have been launched. One, which has been taken over by the judicial police of Paris, is for “formulating death threats and an act of intimidation against a public official”.

The other investigation has been undertaken by the Inspectorate General of the National Police (IGPN), the police force’s police force, and concerns shootings by police officers, such as when a police officer uses his weapon.

After their deposition yesterday, Tuesdayin the evening, their lawyer said he was “very relaxed” about the aftermath, as their clients were only “doing their duty in the face of a serious threat” due to the circumstances, but also the information they had .

This incident took place in a context of tensions in France, due to the war between Israel and the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas and after the murder of teacher Dominique Bernard on October 13 in Arras by a new who had a dossier on Islamic radicalization.