As France began its mourning day on Thursday, in the aftermath of the gruesome attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and vigils, protests and marches condemning the incident went on, another shooting rocked Paris, deepening the suspicion and expanding the manhunt for the terrorists.
In this latest unfortunate episode, a policewoman and her colleague were shot at, in Southern Paris early Thursday morning, while the two were on their duty. The policewoman killed and her colleague was handling the case of a traffic accident when a car suddenly stopped and a man wearing bullet-proof vest shot the two, before fleeing away. The police officials have confirmed this killing, though they couldn’t relate it with the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office.
Photo: Reuters/Charles Platiau
A sense of fear and dread has occupied the hearts of the French people after the country witnessed the brutal attack ever on its soil. Local media reported that there was mosaic of rumors that made the rounds on the social media.
France’s The Local reported that Police have been forced to deny that the Champs Elysée has been blocked off and dismiss rumours that there was gunman on the loose in La Defense business district. There was also a false alarm on the city’s train network when a suspect package was spotted at Saint Michel station. The RER B line was briefly suspended between Châtelet and Luxembourg.
Policemen are deployed in heavy numbers, to guard and assure peace, even while the search for the suspected jihadi terrorists continues in France. An alert had been issued and the police said it had made several arrests in connection to the shooting on Charlie Hebdo’s offices.
Police also released photographs of the two terrorists – Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his 34-year-old brother Said who are involved in the attack on the newspaper’s offices, while one surrendered after seeing his name appearing on social networks.
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