{"id":302779,"date":"2017-03-18T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=302779"},"modified":"2017-03-18T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T11:15:07","slug":"man-killed-after-seizing-soldiers-gun-at-paris-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/man-killed-after-seizing-soldiers-gun-at-paris-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after seizing soldier’s gun at Paris airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
A man has been shot dead after trying to seize a soldier’s weapon at Orly airport in Paris, French officials say.<\/p>\n
He was killed by the security forces in a shop after the attack in the airport’s southern terminal.<\/p>\n
The airport has been shut after what the authorities described as an extremely serious incident.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n