Police in France shot and critically wounded a woman wearing a hijab in a metro station on Tuesday (October 31) morning, after commuters reported her shouting Jihadist slogans and behaving in a threatening manner, the government said.
France is on its highest state of alert after the Oct. 13 murder of a schoolteacher in a suspected Islamist attack, which officials have linked to what they called a "Jihadist atmosphere" linked to the Israel-Gaza war.
The fully-veiled woman was shot at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France station. Commuters had earlier reported her "uttering aggressive, Jihadist comments," government spokesman Olivier Veran said. When police arrived, "they pulled the woman aside and first asked her to calm down but also to show her hands to show they presented no particular danger," he added.