Paris Orly airport shooting: Attacker was ‘radicalised Muslim’ man known to French intelligence services

The 40-year-old shot at police officers manning a checkpoint in northern Paris before launching the airport attack, the French interior minister said.

Terrorism prosecutors have opened and investigation into the assault, which comes after a series of Isis-inspired attacks across France.

The first shooting came at around 7am local time (6am GMT) in Stains, when a man was stopped by police at a security checkpoint.

“It turned bad and the individual shot at the officers before fleeing,” a police source told Reuters.

“This same man – a radicalised Muslim known to intelligence services and the justice system – then took a Famas (assault weapon) from a soldier at Orly’s southern terminal ..before being shot dead by a soldier.”

The car stopped in Stains was a Renault Clio, which was later abandoned for a Citroen Picasso hijacked at gunpoint.

Reuters also reports that no explosives were found on his body