Police opened fire on a vehicle in Paris on Sunday, whose driver tried to throw it at them, killing two of the occupants and injuring a third, a source close to the French police told AFP on the night of the presidential election.
The incident took place in the center of the French capital. According to the first information of the investigation, given by the source to the French Agency, The vehicle was moving upside down in the direction of the road, where it was when the police tried to stop it for control.. He then moved to fall on them, forcing them to use their service weapons, according to the same source.
Strong police force remained on the spot late at night, with a forensic around a corpse on the ground, covered with white linen.
The bloody incident was recorded in Pont-Nef, in the center of Paris, on the night of the re-election of Emanuel Macron as President of France. Hours before the incident, about 2,000 of Mr Macron’s supporters celebrated his victory at Sam de Mars, about 2km from where it took place.
An Egyptian tourist, who said he was called Samak, said he was on the balcony of the Cheval Blanc Hotel, overlooking the Seine, above the Samaritaine store, when the incident took place. «I heard (throwing) four bullets. When I looked there, I saw a man running ten to fifteen meters. Then it collapsed. Apparently, he was not the driver, he was a passenger».
Maxim Genton, a 24-year-old student, was leaving the restaurant with a friend when he heard gunshots. «We went out for a short walk. Then we heard gunshots. We thought they were fireworks. In fact, it was something much more serious than that“, He narrated.
The prosecutor of Paris, Lor Beko, arrived on the spot around 01:30 (local time; 02:30 Greek time), a journalist of the French Agency found out.
The police internal affairs service started conducting an investigation, as is the case when police officers use their service weapons.
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