PARIS POLICE shoot and critically injure hijab-clad Muslim woman shouting “Allahu Akbar” and telling people in the Metro that “you are all going to die”

Train passengers said the woman was “uttering aggressive, jihadist comments,” and kept repeating, “BOOM!” according to a French government spokesperson.

EuroNews (h/t Nita) The police were called in after two passengers reported at around 07:30 that a woman wearing a “full veil” was making threats on a train in Val-de-Marne, Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez told a press conference. Prefect Nuñez added that according to witnesses, the woman also shouted: “You’re all going to die”.

According to the police commissioner, she was subsequently located by police at the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand station in Paris, which was quickly evacuated.

The police officers “asked her to sit down on the ground”, explained the prefect, but the woman got up and “went towards the police officers”. They asked her not to move and to show her hands to check that she had no weapon, but she “refused to comply”.

Two police officers then fired eight shots, said the public prosecutor, who had initially reported a single shot was fired by a police officer. The woman was seriously injured in the abdomen and hospitalised. Police say her injuries are life-threatening.

According to the AP, French police suspect the woman who was shot on Tuesday is the same person who was detained in 2021 for making threats during a French counter-terrorism operation.

The woman, aged 38, had already been stopped in July 2021 by soldiers during Operation Sentinelle. That day, “also wearing a full veil” and carrying a “screwdriver”, she had made “religious remarks” with a “threatening attitude”, explained Laurent Nuñez.

This case comes at a time of tension in France, due to the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, and following the murder of teacher Dominique Bernard in Arras on 13 October by a young man with a record of Islamic radicalism.

Since the attack, France has moved its national terror alert to the highest level of readiness. Since Oct. 18th, 100 bomb threats have been issued at dozens of locations in France, leading to multiple evacuations of airports, train stations and tourist sites such as the Palace of Versailles.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin recorded “819 anti-Semitic acts” and “414 arrests” in France since October 7th, when Hamas fighters stormed into Israel and murdered more than 1400 people before abducting hundreds of hostages.