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Added on the 20/12/2021 17:36:16 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French police undertake initial investigations at the shop where a knife-wielding man held two women hostage in the capital's 12th arrondissement. Following long negotiations led by the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) the man released the mother unharmed, shortly before 10 pm before being arrested the following morning after releasing the second hostage, the daughter unharmed, after 8 am. IMAGES
A man who threatened police officers with a knife has been shot and killed in the business district of La Défense, near Paris, authorities said. IMAGES
Dozens of police officers converged in an area of central Paris on Tuesday in response to a "hostage taking" situation by an armed man, police sources said. IMAGES
Less than two weeks before the opening of the Paris Olympics, a French soldier on patrol was stabbed and injured in the Gare de l'Est, a major Parisian railway station. The suspect, a 40-year-old man has been arrested and the soldier's prognosis "is not life-threatening", says Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on X. IMAGES
French citizen Louis Arnaud is welcomed off the plane by French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne at Le Bourget airport near Paris, before embracing his father and then his mother, after being held in Iran since September 2022 and sentenced last year to five years in prison on national security charges. IMAGES
Images from outside a police station in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, after a man seized a weapon and shot and seriously wounded two officers, a source close to the case told AFP. IMAGES