Reports about the Pont Neuf shooting in Mediapart and Libération question the officer’s claim he was acting to save lives of colleagues because car was driving at them.
The president's Parliamentary majority is under threat after a first round of voting in legislative elections that galvanised a newly formed left-wing alliance.
Speaking at a weapons industry fair, French president said Europe needed 'a much larger defence industry' to avoid relying on suppliers elsewhere for its equipment needs, and called for bigger defence budgets.
As voting in France's legislative elections begins in a first round this weekend, opinion polls suggest the leftwing coalition led by radical-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon is narrowing the gap with Emmanuel Macron's centre-right alliance and threatening to overturn the newly re-elected president's parliamentary majority.
French defence minister Sebastien Lecornu said the settlement 'permits us to turn a page' on the diplomatic row over Australia's decision last year to cancel its purchase of French diesel-powered submarines, worth a total of 35 billion euros, in favour of a strategic pact with the US and UK in which it will receive technology to build nuclear submarines.
