A Parisian jewellery shop proprietor was not in the mood for any nonsense on Tuesday when a robber wielding a Taser gun burst into her upmarket store.

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Feisty jewellery shop owner overpowers robber

A Parisian jewellery shop proprietor was not in the mood for any nonsense on Tuesday when a robber wielding a Taser gun burst into her upmarket store.

Published: 30 May 2012 09:22 CEST
Feisty jewellery shop owner overpowers robber
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The attack happened at around 3.30pm on Tuesday afternoon in the chic 6th arrondissement.

The man threatened the owner and one of her employees with the gun before helping himself to jewellery in the shop’s window.

He didn’t count on the owner seizing a teargas canister and using it against him.

After spraying him with the gas, she then struggled with him while the employee alerted police.

Police arrived and caught the robber who is now being held for questioning.

The brave shop owner was taken to hospital with some injuries to her back.

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One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting

One person was killed and six injured overnight in a gritty northern Paris suburb in a shooting likely linked to drug trafficking, prosecutors and the mayor said Saturday.

Published: 4 May 2024 10:05 CEST
One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting

The attack in a parking lot near a cultural centre at Sevran, which lies between central Paris and the city’s main airport Charles de Gaulle, took place around 11:45 pm (2145 GMT) Friday, prosecutors said.

Upon arriving on the scene, police found four injured people strewn on the ground. One died soon after and the three others were taken to hospitals in a serious condition, a police source said.

Three more people injured by bullets were later taken to hospital, the source said, adding that two men had arrived in the parking lot in a car and one of them got out and opened fire.

The attackers then fled.

Sevran mayor Stephane Blanchet told AFP “it was clearly a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.”

“There is a need to establish order and eradicate trafficking,” he said. “Those idiots fired live bullets and did not heed appeals for calm”.

Police have opened an investigation into intentional homicide by an organised gang, they said. No arrests had been by Saturday morning.

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