"He was holding soldier by neck" - eyewitnesses to Paris-Orly attack - BBC News

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"He was holding soldier by neck" - eyewitnesses to Paris-Orly attack - BBC NewsEyewitnesses speak about the Paris-Orly airport attack where a man was shot dead after he tried to grab a soldier's gun. The man, named as "Ziyed B", was killed by security forces in France after attacking a patrol in the airport's south terminal. Earlier on Saturday 18 March he had been involved in a shooting and then a carjacking in the Paris area. Prosecutors have opened an anti-terror investigation. Ziyed B had been reported as radicalised in the past, and was on a police watch-list.

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