Paris police shoot knife-wielding suspect at Montparnasse station

Alleged threats made against a child and woman; unconfirmed report of a bystander injured during police gunfire; suspect possibly self-inflicted injuries.

At one of Paris's busiest crossroads, a man carrying a knife and a history of domestic violence brought a moment of violence into the ordinary flow of commuter life on November 14. Officers already stationed at Montparnasse's platform intervened swiftly when the man allegedly threatened a child and a woman aboard an arriving train, firing two shots before detaining him. The station fell silent under evacuation orders as investigators began the careful work of reconstructing what happened — and why. Terrorism has been set aside; what remains is the quieter, more familiar story of private anguis

Paris police shoot knife-wielding suspect at Montparnasse station

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