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Man Known wolf shot dead at Paris Orly airport this morning after taking soldier's gun: official
2017-03-18
[France24]. Security forces at Gay Paree' Orly airport on Saturday rubbed out a man who took a weapon from a soldier, the interior ministry said, adding that nobody else was hurt in the incident.

Witnesses said the airport was evacuated following the shooting at around 8:30am (0730GMT).

"A man took a weapon from a soldier then hid in a shop in the airport before being rubbed out by security forces," an interior ministry front man told AFP.

He said no one was maimed in the incident.

Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux is due to visit the facility, which is in Gay Paree' southern outskirts, the front man added.

"We had queued up to check in for the Tel Aviv flight when we heard three or four shots nearby," witness Franck Lecam said.

"The whole airport has been evacuated," the 54-year-old said, confirming what an airport worker, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, had said earlier.

"We are all outside the airport, about 200 metres from the entrance," Lecam said.

"There are coppers, emergency workers and soldiers everywhere in all directions. A security official told us that it happened near gates 37-38 where Turkish Airlines flights were scheduled."
Update from Ynet at 9:25 a.m. EDT:
The man shot and killed Saturday at Gay Paree's Orly Airport was reportedly a radicalized Moslem known to intelligence services.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  It's arse to cold wall if you're Tommy,
But if you're Islamic, not pommy,
Your mums'll raise pranksters
On dole, as your gangsters
And you all jihad someplace balmy.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-03-18 22:10  

#4  radicalised in prison

Curious to me as to how radical preacher/teachers can be drone zapped in sovereign nations but uncontrolled hate mongers in prisons are allowed to motivate clustered threshold personalities unabated.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-03-18 10:49  

#3  London Standard article here
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-03-18 10:34  

#2  You beat me to the post, Frank -- I was just checking in before working up the information. Our miscreant has had a busy morning before he got himself killed. From your article:

o Convicted criminal Zied B., 39, was shot dead at the airport's south terminal

o Less than two hours earlier he had shot at three police officers after being stopped for speeding

o Authorities believe he was radicalised in prison, and his father and brother have been arrested

o Witnesses recounted hearing 'four or five' shots, and the airport was evacuated

And not included in the highlights but in the text of the article, the Tunisian-Frenchman abandoned the car in which he was stopped, leaving his identification papers in it, to highjack another which he abandoned at the airport -- though possibly he would have returned to it had he not been summarily executed by French soldiers.

So much for the idea of easing the elevated national security status, releasing all those patrolling soldiers to their normal duties. No doubt updates will show he was being guided from Raqqa via Telegram, and that someone supplied him with weapons and training in their use.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-03-18 10:11  

#1  Radicalized Muslim and former Convict
Posted by: Frank G   2017-03-18 09:30  

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