Important crowd movement in the La Défense district this Saturday. Videos posted on social media showed people running in the Les Quatre Temps shopping center, as well as outside the building, on the forecourt. “A police operation is taking place in La Défense. I asked the prefect of police to go there, ”tweeted Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
The police are doing a “removal of doubt”, tells us the prefecture of Hauts-de-Seine. According to this source, a man fell from several floors at the level of the well located near Auchan. The track favored by the investigators is that of a suicide. It is the sound of his fall that would have caused the panic. No gunshot wounds occurred, contrary to what has been claimed on social networks.
Alexandre was quietly shopping at Fnac in the Cnit shopping center, located on the other side of the square, when the facts occurred. “We were confined inside the store in a security zone with the staff”, reports this resident of Neuilly. “We received very disturbing information evoking gunshots and then a suicide,” he continues, after spending more than an hour locked up. “Some people broke down and started crying, we were suffocating. Luckily the fnac vendors brought us bottles of water. »
Public transport traffic was interrupted near La Défense for “security measures”.
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