INFO LE FIGARO – A “marginal” individual fired into the air. The Palace of the Presidency of the Republic and the Ministry of the Interior were not directly targeted. Another man was also arrested.
The location of the shot was not trivial. Saturday evening at 7:15 p.m., avenue de Marigny, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, a pedestrian fired a fireworks mortar near the Élysée Palace and Place Beauvau, we learned Le Figaro from a source close to the matter, confirming information from Europe 1.
According to information from Figarothe shooter and a second individual were arrested near the Presidency of the Republic and the Ministry of the Interior. Still according to this source, the author of the shot, who was carrying a fireworks mortar “multicoups» presents a profile «marginal».
The police officers present reacted immediately. The institutions were not targeted as such since the shot was directed towards the sky, indicated to the Figaro the Paris prefecture.