A veiled woman was shot and critically wounded by police in a Paris underground station after she threatened to detonate explosives, reports The Times.
Police cordoned off the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand Metro station on the left bank after the incident at 9am, which began when the woman started screaming at passengers while travelling on a train further up the line, officers said.
After passengers called police, officers confronted the woman — who was dressed with full face-covering veil and long robe — in the station.
She refused to obey their orders and screamed “Allahu akbar” and “everythings’s going to blow up”, police said. An officer shot the woman, who was hit in the abdomen and taken to hospital where she was in critical condition.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was identified as a 38-year-old Muslim with radical views who had a conviction for threatening soldiers on anti-terrorist patrol in the Paris streets in 2021. Olivier Véran, the government spokesman, said that she had been treated for mental health problems and had received counselling for her radical indoctrination.
The woman was found to be unarmed.