Paris Orly airport evacuated after reports of shots fired

 

This file photo shows a control tower at Orly's airport, south of Paris. Picture: AFP

 

POLICE have evacuated the Paris Orly International Airport after a man attempted to wrestle a gun off a soldier, who then opened fire.

 

French news services are reporting a ‘shootout’ in the airport’s southern terminal. They says a man attempted to grab the weapon of a solder, who then opened fire.

 

The assailent - who may have been shot in the attack - was ‘controlled’ by security forces, reports say.

 

The airport is being evacuated to ensure the attacker had no accomplices. Explosives experts have been summoned to determine if any bombs have been planted.

 

Full story: http://www.news.com.au/world/paris-orly-airport-evacuated-after-reports-of-shots-fired/news-story/042556e9a1bf92aff7a5eada519d0143

 

News.com.au: 2017-03-18

BBC still not calling the Orly terrorist attack a "terrorist attack" ..."puff puff as more smoke is puffed into the Bee hive"..."move along people...the news cycle moves fast give it three days and the Bees will forget...puff puff".

"The man was on a watch-list of radicalized individuals and had been involved in a shooting hours earlier in the north of Paris, officials say... His motivation is not yet known." 

How do BBC journalists live with this amount of cognitive dissonance? 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39314250

Orly attack motive to be probed, female soldier "doing fine" - spokesmen

 

Emergency services at Orly airport southern terminal after a shooting incident near Paris, France March 18, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

 

PARIS (Reuters) - The man killed at Orly airport on Saturday tried to snatch a gun from a female soldier "in an extremely violent attack" on her before he was shot dead, a French army spokesman said.

Benoit Brulon, a spokesman for France's anti-terror patrol force, said of the female soldier: "She's doing fine".

Brulon, speaking on BFMTV, said the female soldier, who was part of an air force detachment, fell to the ground as she struggled with her attacker.

"It was then that her comrades opened fire to protect her and people around," he said.

Separately, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henri Brandet said it was "possible" but had yet to be established that the incident could be called a terrorist attack.

"There's possibly a terrorist motive but that's something the justice system will have to ascertain and it will do so in due time," Brandet told reporters.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-03-18

Father, brother of man killed at Orly airport held by police - judicial source

 

Judicial police investigators enter Orly airport southern terminal after a shooting incident near Paris, France March 18, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

 

PARIS (Reuters) - The father and brother of the man killed on Saturday at Paris's Orly airport have been taken into police custody, a judicial source said.

The source said the move was a routine one in such circumstances.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-03-18

20 hours ago, stander said:

"The man was on a watch-list of radicalized individuals and had been involved in a shooting hours earlier in the north of Paris, officials say... His motivation is not yet known." 

How do BBC journalists live with this amount of cognitive dissonance? 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39314250

The headlines say"Orly attack motive to be probed" hell The "motive" is that he is a radical,muslim terrorist.