Paris police shoot two dead and injure woman as car refuses to stop at checkpoint

 
INA-sources
 
Police in Paris shot dead two people and injured a third as a car refused to stop at a checkpoint on the oldest bridge in the French capital and sped towards officers amid protests against Emmanuel Macron's re-election.
 
The bloodbath happened on the ancient Pont Neuf, in the centre of the city, soon after Emmanuel Macron's re-election as President on Sunday night.
 
'A car came rushing towards police soon after midnight, and refused to stop,' said an investigating source.
 
'One of the police officers opened fire, killing two people and wounding a third.'
 
In the early hours of Monday morning, an examining magistrate attended the scene, which was closed to traffic.
 
The IGNP investigations unit – one that deals with potential crimes carried out by the police – also attended.
 
 
Police at the scene confirmed that the wounded person was a woman who had been hit in the arm by a bullet as she travelled in the back of the Volkswagen Polo.
 
She was rushed to the Pitié-Saplêtrière hospital 'for urgent treatment,' said the investigating source.
 
All of the shots were thought to have been fired by a police-issue Heckler & Koch G36 assault rifle.
 
There was no return of fire from those inside the car, none of whom are thought to have been armed.
 
'It seems that they were simply in a car that was being driven erratically,' said the source.
 
There were no early clues pointing to a link with the presidential election, or any terrorist acts.
 
An investigation has been launched for 'attempted voluntary manslaughter on persons in charge of public authority'.
 
A security perimeter has been set up at the scene in the heart of the capital and the public prosecutor Laure Beccuau arrived shortly after.
 
France's police oversight body, the General Inspectorate of the National Police, is also expected to be deployed, as is typical following an officer's use of a firearm.   
 
 
Source: Daily Mail