Orly airport: Man killed after taking soldier's gun

[nitpicker]

Source: BBC

Orly airport: Man killed after taking soldier's gun


3 minutes ago

From the section Europe


A man has been shot dead after grabbing a soldier's gun at Orly airport in Paris, French officials say. He was killed by the security forces in a shop after seizing the weapon in the airport's southern terminal.

The airport has been shut down after what the authorities said was an extremely serious incident and passengers not allowed to disembark. A security operation is continuing with bomb disposal experts involved and a search for any possible accomplices.
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Officials say the man approached a group of soldiers patrolling the airport and made off with the gun into a shop. At that point shots were fired and the man was killed.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39314250

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Apparently the same man also injured a police officer with a pellet gun in Paris

Same link:

The man was on a watch-list of radicalised individuals and had been involved in a shooting hours earlier in the north of Paris, officials say.

The suspect in the earlier incident was stopped at a checkpoint and fired at police with a pellet gun before escaping in a car that was later found abandoned in the southern suburbs.

He is then believed to have used stolen another car that was found at Orly airport. The timing of the sequence of events fits, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris.

The article also now says he didn't get control of the weapon:

The French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the man approached a military patrol in the airport and tried to seize a weapon from one of the soldiers.

She managed to keep hold of the gun, and two other soldiers opened fire on the attacker, killing him.

And:

French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the Orly attacker assaulted a patrol of three air force soldiers, one of whom was a woman. The attacker wrestled her to the floor and tried to take her weapon, but she managed to keep hold of it. The two other soldiers then opened fire “to protect her” and passengers in the airport.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/18/man-shot-dead-at-paris-airport-after-trying-to-grab-gun-reports-say

[mainer]

2. Meantime, we bomb a Syrian mosque and kill 46 civilians

Winning hearts and minds again, like we did in the Bush war.

[dembotoz]

3. While here he can openly carry into most places and we just wait him him to shoot someone

[christx30]

4. He would have been shot here too,

for stealing a gun from a cop. At that point, he's a danger to society.