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Paris manhunt after armed man takes hostage near Champs Elysées, shots at Soc Gén bank

Hundreds of police are involved in a manhunt and a helicopter is currently hovering over the Champs Elysées in Paris as police try to track a gunman or gunmen responsible for three incidents around the French capital this Monday morning. 

Société générale at La Défense near Paris.
Société générale at La Défense near Paris. Reuters/Benoit Tessier
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A car-driver told police his car was hijacked just after midday at La Défense (the financial district just outside Paris) and he was ordered to drive to the Champs Elysées.

A man had fired gunshots at around midday in front of the Société Générale bank building in the financial district of La Défense, just outside the French capital. No one was wounded.

It’s unclear whether these developments are related to the incident this morning at the offices of Libération newspaper.

At 1015 a man armed with a pump action rifle burst into the lobby of the Paris premises of French left-wing newspaper Libération and opened fire, seriously injuring an assistantant photographer before fleeing, according to the police.

The victim was hit in the thorax.

On Friday, an armed man entered the premises of BFMTV television station in the French capital threatening journalists before fleeing.

 

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