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Vehicle barriers and police patrols are part of the heightened security surrounding the Paris Plages that opened on Wednesday, coming less than a week after the deadly Nice attacks
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Locals and tourists enjoy the 14th edition of "Paris Plages" a festival that transforms the banks of the river Seine into a vibrant beach scene. Elly Park reports.
Police are on the scene near the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand train station in Paris after French police shot and wounded a woman who was making threats, a police source told AFP. According to witnesses the woman, who was completely veiled, shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is Greatest") and "made threats", the source said, adding that "police fired because they feared for their safety". After passengers on a suburban train alerted police, agents managed to "isolate" the woman at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station on the capital's south bank, the source said. IMAGES
A large security perimeter is set up around Paris' rue d'Enghien, in the 10th arrondissement, following a shooting that killed at least two people according to the prosecutor’s office. Four others were injured, two of them are currently under emergency treatment. A suspect, "a man between 60 and 70 years old was arrested and taken into custody," the prosecutor said. IMAGES