shots were blown up in Paris, Two people were killed and four others were injured. According to the French police, a man was arrested as a result. According to police sources quoted by the French press, shots were fired in central Paris just before noon. The events took place on Rue d’Enghien in the tenth arrondissement of the French capital. A 69-year-old man of French nationality was arrested.
The shooting “took place at the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet-Kaya at 16 rue d’Enghien,” writes Le Parisien. Meanwhile, people are in shock. “Seven, eight, shoot in the street, It was total panic. We were locked inside,” says a local shopkeeper, quoted by France Presse.
The Paris police prefecture invites citizens and tourists “Avoid Sector” scene of the gunfight on Rue d’Enghien, in the X arrondissement of the French capital. In a message posted to Twitter, police called for “emergency services to intervene in the area.”
Two of the injured are in very serious condition.
The judges have opened an investigation into “murder, intentional killing and serious violence,” reports the Paris public prosecutor’s office, quoted by Bfm-Tv. “A 69-year-old man was stopped and taken into custody,” prosecutors said.
The alleged perpetrator is of French nationality, writes the newspaper Le Parisien and confirms that the man stopped by the police is 69 years old. According to the newspaper, he would be “a pensioner of SNCF,” the French railway company where he worked as a “conductor.”
“Thanks to the forces of law and order for their decisive intervention this morning during the terrible attack in the 10th arrondissement. A thought to the victims and their families. We stand by your side. A psychological cell will be opened at the town hall of the tenth arrondissement ”: he writes in a tweet from the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.